Now the hell will start one soldier's flight from the greatest manhunt of World War II
The remarkable tale of Herman Perry, a native of North Carolina who wound up going native in the Indo-Burmese jungle. Perry was shipped in a segregated labor battalion to South Asia in 1943, one of thousands of black soldiers dispatched to build the Ledo Road, from the mountains of northeast India a...
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| 100 | 1 | |a Koerner, Brendan I. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Now the hell will start : |b one soldier's flight from the greatest manhunt of World War II / |c Brendan I. Koerner. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Penguin Press, |c 2008. | ||
| 300 | |a 386 p. : |b ill., map ; |c 25 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [334]-376) and index. | ||
| 520 | |a The remarkable tale of Herman Perry, a native of North Carolina who wound up going native in the Indo-Burmese jungle. Perry was shipped in a segregated labor battalion to South Asia in 1943, one of thousands of black soldiers dispatched to build the Ledo Road, from the mountains of northeast India across the tiger-infested vales of Burma. Perry could not endure the jungle's brutality, nor the racism of his white officers. Finally, in emotional collapse, he shot a white lieutenant. So began Perry's flight through one of the planet's most hostile realms. He eventually stumbled upon a village festooned with polished human skulls, where, amid a tribe of elaborately tattooed headhunters, he would find bliss--and would marry the chief 's fourteen-year-old daughter. Author Koerner spent nearly five years chasing Perry's ghost through the remotest corners of India and Burma, and uncovering the forgotten story of the Ledo Road's black G.I.s.--From publisher description. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |x African Americans |v Biography. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a African American soldiers |v Biography. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Stilwell Road (Burma and India) | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Military deserters |z United States |v Biography. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Escapes |z Burma |x History |y 20th century. | |
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