A Slate slideshow about "the greatest manhunt of WWII":

In his new book, Now the Hell Will Start, Brendan I. Koerner tells the story of an epic World War II manhunt: the quest to find Herman Perry, a black soldier who shot and killed a white commanding officer, then disappeared into the jungles of Burma, where he joined a tribe of headhunters and eluded capture for months.

This entry was published on May 30, 2008 at 12:32 pm by Cliff Kuang.

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