TET! THE STORY OF A BATTLE AND ITS HISTORIC AFTERMATH by Don Oberdorfer. 385 pages. Doubleday. $7.95.
One American officer in Viet Nam called it "a piddling platoon action." But to the millions of Americans who saw TV film clips of the daring attack by a Viet Cong demolition squad on the U.S. embassy in Saigon, the Tet offensive of 1968 was something more impressive than that. "What the hell is going on?" CBS Correspondent Walter Cronkite fairly shouted when he first saw footage of the raid. "I though we were winning the war."...
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