The Old Man's Trail
By: Tom Campbell.
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Annapolis, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781557501172
Subjects: Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Fiction.
Description: The journey of a 60-man NVA supply convoy on one of the Ho Chi Minh trails during the Vietnam War. It is told through the eyes of its battle-hardened commander who acts as father to his young charges. He trains them en route in survival techniques to save them from jungle animals and U.S. warplanes, but even then a third don't make it. A first novel.