Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2008
ISBN 10: 1594201730 ISBN 13: 9781594201738
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2008
ISBN 10: 1594201730 ISBN 13: 9781594201738
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Verlag: Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
ISBN 10: 1594201730 ISBN 13: 9781594201738
Anbieter: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, USA
Zustand: Used - Very Good. 2008. Hardcover. Very Good.
Verlag: Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
ISBN 10: 1594201730 ISBN 13: 9781594201738
Anbieter: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, USA
Erstausgabe
Zustand: Used - Good. 1St Edition. 2008. Hardcover. Good. No Dust Jacket.
Verlag: Penguin Books, New York, 2008
ISBN 10: 1594201730 ISBN 13: 9781594201738
Anbieter: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, USA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition, first printing. 386 pp. The ashtonishing tale of Herman Perry, the soldier who sparked the greatest manhunt of World War II--and who became the war's unlikliest folk hero. Perry was an African American GI from Washington D.C., asigned to a segregated labor battalion, and shipped to the South Asia in 1943. Beset by emotional issues brought on not only by the brutal conditions in northeast India and Burma, where his battalion was assigned to build the Ledo Road (a hignway meant to appease China's Chaing Kai-shek) as well from the racist treatment from white officers, Perry found solace in opium and marijuana and eventually broke down in March, 1944, an episode that ended with his shooting an unarmed white lieutenant. Perry fled through the Indo-Burmese jungle with the military police combing Calcutta; he stumbled upon a village of headhunters among whom he settled, finding some peace and even marrying the tribal chief's daughter. Author Koerner, more than half a century later and starting with noting more than a 10-word entry in an obscure bibliography, chased Perry's ghost into the most remote corners of India and Burma, discovering along the way the story of the Ledo Road's Black GIs, many of whom revered the elusive soldier whom they dubbed the Jungle King, a folk hero.
Verlag: Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Mai 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 0143115332 ISBN 13: 9780143115335
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An epic saga of hubris , cruelty, and redemption, Now the Hell Will Start tells the remarkable tale of the greatest manhunt of World War II. Herman Perry, besieged by the hardships of the Indo-Burmese jungle and the racism meted out by his white commanding officers, found solace in opium and marijuana. But on one fateful day, Perry shot his unarmed white lieutenant in the throes of an emotional collapse and fled into the jungle. Brendan I. Koerner spent nearly five years chasing Perry's ghost to the most remote corners of India and Burma. Along the way, he uncovered the forgotten story of the Ledo Road's GIs, for whom Jim Crow was as powerful an enemy as the Japanese-and for whom Herman Perry, dubbed the jungle king, became an unlikely folk hero.
Verlag: Penguin US, 2008
ISBN 10: 1594201730 ISBN 13: 9781594201738
Anbieter: Studibuch, Stuttgart, Deutschland
hardcover. Zustand: USED_FINE. 416 Seiten; 9781594201738.2 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1.