The Author: DON MOSER is a journalist and a former assistant managing editor of LIFE. He also served as LIFE'S bureau chief in the Far East in the late 1960s. In addition to writing articles for LIFE, he has written for National Geographic, Smithsonian and Audubon. The author of two volumes in TIME-LIFE BOOKS' The American Wilderness series, The Snake River Country and Central American Jungles, Moser has written a book on the Olympic National Park, The Peninsula, and a novel, A Heart to the Hawks. He is now on the staff of Smithsonian.

The Consultants: COLONEL JOHN R. ELTING, USA (Ret.), is a military historian and author of The Battle of Bunker's Hill, The Battles of Saratoga and Military History and Atlas of the Napoleonic Wars. He edited Military Uniforms in America: The Era of the American Revolution, 1755-1795 and Military Uniforms in America: Years of Growth, 1796-1851, and was associate editor of The West Point Atlas of American Wars.

LIEUT. GENERAL WILLIAM R. PEERS, USA (Ret.), commanded the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Detachment 101 in northern Burma under General Stilwell between April 1942 and November 1943, and later directed OSS operations south of the Yangtze River in China. He co-authored, with Dean Brelis, Behind the Burma Road. During the Vietnam War, he commanded the 4th Infantry Division and First Field Force Vietnam. In 1969 he conducted the U.S. Army inquiry into the My Lai incident.

O. EDMUND CLUBB is a retired U.S. a Foreign Service Officer. After the attack on Pearl Harbor he was interned by the Japanese for eight months in Hanoi, French Indochina; following his release in an exchange with several diplomatic personnel, he volunteered to be reassigned to Asia and was sent to China, where he spent two years. He is the author of 20th Century China; China and Russia: The "Great Game"; Communism in China---As Reported from Hankow in 1932 and The Witness and I.

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