Now the Hell Will Start

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.^[1][2][3][4]

Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II

First Edition (English)
Author	Brendan I. Koerner
Language	English
Genre	World War II
Publisher	Penguin Press (USA)
Publication date	2008
Publication place	United States
Media type	Hardback
ISBN	1-59420-173-0
OCLC	175289974
Dewey Decimal	940.54/8 22
LC Class	D810.N4 P4756 2008
Followed by	The Skies Belong to Us

It investigates and recounts the story of Herman Perry, an African-American World War II soldier assigned to the China-Burma-India theatre of the war. Perry killed a white officer while helping construct the Ledo Road. He subsequently retreated into the Indo-Burmese wilderness and joined a tribe of the headhunting Nagas, successfully joining one village and marrying the fourteen-year-old daughter of one of the tribe members.

It also relates some of the history of the CBI theatre as it pertains to Herman Perry, as well as explores the injustices of the Jim Crow mentality and policies carried out by the military during World War II.

In February 2009, American director Spike Lee purchased the film rights to the book.^[5]