The Blood Road: The Ho Chi Minh Trail and the Vietnam War

The jungle path that was the major supply line for the Viet Cong war effort, the Ho Chi Minh Trail was a symbol of a people's fierce determination and ingenuity in the face of overwhelming odds as well as the very heart of the North Vietnamese war strategy. In this book, acclaimed military historian John Prados takes the trail as the starting point for what is considered by many to be the definitive military history of the Vietnam War. This exhaustively researched history incorporates recently declassified government documents, oral histories, memoirs, and interviews to examine the conflict from all sides -- from the trials of both the North Vietnamese and South Vietnamese soldiers in the jungles and the heroism of the American troops, to the machinations of the generals and diplomats and the antiwar protests back home.