Charles Krohn was interviewed for BookCast by Fairfax County Public Library Director Sam Clay. BookCast is sponsored by Virginia Commerce Bank through the Fairfax Library Foundation.

• 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.