How Sleep The Brave

How Sleep The Brave concerns the experiences of five members of an American Patrol, ambushed by the Vietcong and marched along the Ho Chi Minh Trail to a supply camp deep in the forest. There, intensive indoctrination - at the hands of an American defector - is used to persuade two of the GIs that America's cause is immoral and unjust. This powerful novel tells the story of these traitors: their undercover trip to Saigon for supplies, a helicopter trip to free a Buddhist leader, the passionate affair between one of the Americans and a North Vietnamese girl. It captures all the terror of modern warfare in a land wracked by fighting for more than a quarter of a century. (Published in the U.S.A. under the title The Traitors.