The diary tells of the soldier’s grueling journey through Laos, over the Ho Chi Minh Trail ... The Vietnam War was a central conflict in the Cold War between the democratic United States ...

Figure caption, Vietnam War Supplies being carried through jungle routes from North Vietnam to the South on the Ho Chi Minh trail These efforts to ‘manage’ the Cold War and to improve ...

With the Cold War intensifying, Vietnam is divided in ... North Vietnamese troops and materiel stream down the Ho Chi Minh Trail into the south, while Saigon struggles to “pacify the countryside.” ...

These efforts to ‘manage’ the Cold War and to improve relations with ... routes from North Vietnam to the South on the Ho Chi Minh trail He introduced a policy of Vietnamisation, also known ...