Charles Krohn
Charles
Krohn was interviewed
for BookCast by Fairfax County Public Library Director Sam
Clay.
A retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, Charles Krohn is a military writer and a combat veteran of Vietnam. He first published The Lost Battalion of Tet: Breakout of the 2/12th Cavalry at Hue in 1993. It was updated and republished in 2008 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1968 Tet offensive.
The Lost Battalion of Tet recounts what went wrong during a six-week period in January and February 1968 during the recapture of the city of Hue when a U.S. infantry battalion was ordered to attack a North Vietnamese force of more than 2,000 without air or artillery support.
As a civilian he served as the U.S. Army’s deputy chief of public affairs from 2001-2004. Recently, he was a visiting professor of journalism at the University of Michigan. He now works for the American Battle Monuments Commission.