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Now the hell will start : one soldier's flight from the greatest manhunt of World War II / Brendan I. Koerner.

by Koerner, Brendan I.

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New York : Penguin Press, 2008.

Perry, Herman, 1922-

World War, 1939-1945 -- African Americans -- Biography.

African American soldiers -- Biography.

Military deserters -- United States -- Biography.

Escapes -- Burma -- History -- 20th century.

Stilwell Road (Burma and India)

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0834/2007043078-b.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0834/2007043078-d.html

9781594201738 :

386 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.

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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