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Chargement... Now the Hell Will Start (2008)par Brendan I. Koerner
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I feel the author really wanted to tell the story of Jim Crow and segregation and it's impact on soldiers in World War II but used the headhunters as a hook. It worked, but there is almost zero information about the soldier's time with the natives. Still, very interesting ( ) What I love about the second world war is scale of the conflict was so big that it touched so many parts of the world and so many different people. Herman Perry's story is pretty heartwrenching. The treatment of black GIs working on the Leto Road in Burma was horrendous and I cant believe more didnt do what Herman Perry did. His time on the run from the authorities is fascinating. The author provides interesting historical interludes that help contextualize the things happening to Perry. The section regarding the Naga people and the relationship between Chiang and Stilwell are particularly clarifying. Come for the title; stay for the story. Other reviewers here have complained that there's too much about the Ledo Road--but I thought that was all pretty interesting and a reminder of how much of modern warfare is simply slogging through awful terrain. It ain't all Steve Rogers beating up the Red Skull. This was an illuminating and genuinely interesting story. Who knew? Reading this book reminded me why I love wartime history so much...war really does bring out the best and the worst in humanity. There are equally countless tales of heroism and of dastardly deeds. But this story ends up being both. Koerner's portrait of Herman Perry, the "Jungle King," is unflinching but sympathetic. As such, it is a gripping expression of the tragic weakness that is humanity. P.S. I read this book as a follow-up to Laura Hillenbrand's amazing work "Unbroken." You couldn't ask for a better contrast of individual war experiences. I highly recommend reading them back-to-back. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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