It is a non-fiction narrative investigating and recounting the story of Herman Perry, an African-American World War II soldier stationed in the China-Burma-India theatre of the war.
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He subsequently retreated into the Indo-Burmese wilderness and joined a tribe of the headhunting Nagas.
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Perry killed a white officer while helping construct the Ledo Road.
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His first solo authored full length book, Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II, was published by Penguin Press in 2008.
Writing in The Washington Monthly Brendan I. Koerner faults Wild for bland, unrefined storytelling, poor logic, and off topic digressions with unnecessary detail about unimportant minutiae.
Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II (2008) is a narrative nonfiction history book by United States author Brendan I. Koerner.
The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking (2013) is a narrative nonfiction book by United States author Brendan I. Koerner.
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