DC to Burma
Thursday, October 30 6:30 pm
Sumner School, 1201 17th Street, NW (17th & M Streets)
In 1944, 21-year-old Army Pvt. Herman Perry was working on the Ledo Road, a massive military project in inhospitable terrain. Perry, a black soldier, shot and killed his white commanding officer, then disappeared into the jungle, where he joined a tribe of headhunters and eluded capture for months. In Now the Hell Will Start, Koerner’s superb reporting creates a memorable book that is part thriller, part history—even the Post’s Jonathan Yardley liked it! More images.
