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Koerner, B. Now The Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight From The Greatest Manhunt Of World War II

Koerner, B. Now The Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight From The Greatest Manhunt Of World War II

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(032065) Koerner, Brendan I. Now The Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight From The Greatest Manhunt Of World War II. New York: Penguin Press, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 386 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Photographs. The remarkable tale of Herman Perry, an African-American budding Romeo from the streets of Washington, DC, who wound up going native in the Indo-Burma jungle in order to escape a manhunt by the US Army. Perry had been assigned to a segregated labor batallion and shipped to South Asia in 1943. He was one of thousands of black soldiers dispatched to build the Ledo Road, a highway meant to appease China's Chiang Kai-shek. He eventually had an emotion collapse that ended with his shooting an unarmed white lieutenant ISBN: 9781594201738 (Perry, Herman, African Americans, Biography, Soldiers, Military Deserters, Escapes, Burma)

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