Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II
- ISBN-10
- 1594201730
- ISBN-13
- 9781594201738
- Category
- African American soldiers
- Pages
- 386
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Brendan I. Koerner
Description
Traces the story of World War II soldier Herman Perry, an African-American G.I. assigned to a segregated labor battalion who sparked the war's most notorious manhunt when he fled into the Indo-Burmese jungle after shooting an unarmed white officer.
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