The
Tracks of the Fox is the author’s attempt to identify the crew of the
B-24 who dropped him in occupied France 20 miles off target. Because
of the top secret classification of these operations, the US Air Force
which succeeded the Army Air Corps would not help in his inquiry. Eventually
the classification was lifted. While searching for his French resistance
comrades of World War Two, he accidentally discovered the Air Force
crew in question. In the process the author made some devastating discoveries
concerning those who had helped him. These are recounted in The Tracks
of the Fox, which unveil events not yet recounted in history in post-war
France & Vietnam. In France, he describes the suffering of his French
comrades at the hands of the communists who unsuccessfully attempted
to takeover France by force. Their main purpose was not to fight the
Nazis, but to create an authority strong enough to take over post-war
France. In South East Asia, where the author was with Ho Chi Minh, he
describes the unbelievable adventures of the wife of a French officer,
possibly an OSS agent, and the defection of a Vietminh leader whose
father was executed by Ho Chi Minh’s orders. Uncle Ho, this agrarian
reformer, had learned from Stalin that
in order to succeed in a revolution all oppositions either real or who
imagined must be removed. It included Nguyên-Dinh-Tan’s Father. The
author also reveals the tribulations of one the maquis’ chiefs,
a remarkable contemplative Benetictine Monk. These are events not yet
recounted in history of post-war France.
