Mission on the Ho Chi Minh Trail: Nature, Myth, and War in Viet Nam

by Richard L. Stevens

Book Overview

A narrative of jungle combat that examines the role of nature in the war between technology-dependent American forces and the deep-forest-adapted Viet Cong. Ten years after the war, Stevens writes, I realized I had lived in Viet Nam the mythic hero-journey: separation from the World, ' which is wha

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806127686
• ISBN13: 9780806127682
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.8"