
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...

In this narrative of jungle combat, Richard L. Stevens, a U.S. Foreign Service civilian is guided on the Trail by the ex-Viet Cong guerilla Viet, master of deep-forest war. Stevens, an ex-Marine but a neophyte here, is drawn ever deeper into the jungle--and into combat--by his...