The Tet Offensive was a major, large-scale offensive undertaken by the North Vietnamese PAVN and its Viet Cong guerrilla allies into South Vietnam during the Vietnamese Lunar New Year (Tet) celebrations. The offensive struck almost every city in South Vietnam, but it was repulsed with heavy losses. The Viet Cong suffered such heavy losses that North Vietnam was forced to commit a larger share of the communist alliance's forces in future offensives, and the North Vietnamese failed to provoke a popular uprising in South Vietnam. However, the near-success of the invasion and the communists' ambitious all-out offensive shocked the US public, which had been led to believe that the war was almost won; after the Tet Offensive, the public no longer believed that the US strategy was working, and believed the war to be unwinnable. On the 50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive comes "We're Taking Fire," a powerful examination by Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Peter Arnett of what led to that pivotal moment of the Vietnam War in 1968 and the tumultuous aftermath. Through his reports for The Associated Press from the early 1960s to the fall of Saigon in 1975, and interviews conducted during and after the war, Arnett explains the complexities that drove the decisions made by the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations and how each was unable to achieve a winning strategy that would put an end to the unpopular and controversial conflict.