The Ho Chi Minh Trail was a 12,000-mile network of jungle roads and trails paralleling the Annamite Cordillera used by the North Vietnamese to transport communications, supplies, and troops to South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The North Vietnamese...

The Ho Chi Minh trail was a logistical system that ran from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) to the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) through the neighboring kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia. The system provided support, in the form of...

NEW YORK - Philip Jones Griffiths, a photographer who spent three years covering the Vietnam War, took a trip down memory lane last year. But he did it the hard way -- on the Ho Chi Minh trail. When he first saw what...

THE ROAD TO FREEDOM: A History of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. By Virginia Morris with Clive Hills. Bangkok: Orchid Press. 2006. xix, 180 pp. (Photos, maps.) US$29.95, cloth. ISBN 974-524-076-1. The Ho Chi Minh Trail was a network of routes by...

Four decades after U.S. warplanes plastered it with bombs, a remote corner of the old Ho Chi Minh Trail in Cambodia is making a comeback as a treasure trove of endangered wildlife.Tigers prowl imperiously down tracks where weapons-laden North Vietnamese trucks once rolled. Elephants shepherd...

Troops with powerful rifle scopes scanned mountain ridges for elusive, black-clad Taliban infiltrators. Afghan soldiers, hit by a roadside bomb, pressed on into the valley. U.S. Special Forces swept through the sinister alleys of its main settlement.The strike, carried out by about 200 American and...