The Jungle is Neutral

THE JUNGLE IS NEUTRAL makes The Bridge Over the River Kwai look like a tussle in a schoolyard. F. SPENCER CHAPMAN, the book's unflappable author, narrates with typical British aplomb an amazing tale of four years spent as a guerrilla in the jungle, haranguing the Japanese in occupied Malaya. Traveling sometimes by bicycle and motorcycle, rarely by truck, and mainly in dugouts, on foot, and often on his belly through the jungle muck, Chapman recruits sympathetic Chinese, Malays, Tamils, and Sakai tribesman into an irregular corps of jungle fighters. Their mission: to harass the Japanese in any way possible. In riveting scenes, they blow up bridges, cut communication lines, and affix plastique to troop-filled trucks idling by the road. They build mines by stuffing bamboo with gelignite. They throw grenades and disappear into the jungle, their faces darkened, their tommy guns wrapped in tape so as not to reflect the moonlight. And when he is not battling the Japanese, or escaping from their prisons, he is fighting the jungle's incessant rain, wild tigers, unfriendly tribesmen, leeches, and undergrowth so thick it can take four hours to walk a mile. It is a war story without rival.

The JUNGLE IS NEUTRAL

History

Spencer-Chapman, F.

Asia

HarperCollins, Publishers

<p>‘ONE OF THE GREATEST EVER ACCOUNTS OF WAR, ADVENTURE, ENDURANCE AND SURVIVAL. THE JUNGLE IS NEUTRAL IS A CLASSIC' Sir Ranulph Fiennes‘Thrilling’ New York Times -- ‘Awe-inspiring’ Daily Mail***When Singapore fell to the Japanese in December 1941, Captain Freddie Spencer Chapman chose to take the fight to the enemy.Trekking deep behind enemy lines into the jungle, this veteran explorer turned special forces operative unleashed a one-man commando campaign of such destructive power and lethal ferocity that the Japanese deployed a Regiment of four thousand men in a desperate effort to hunt him down.For three-and-a-half years he was cut off from Allied support. Fighting alongside Malayan guerrillas, he endured terrible injury, starvation, a host of gruesome tropical diseases and even cannibalism.While many of his companions were killed, captured and beheaded by the Japanese, he held out, fighting on until the war’s end when he eventually made contact with British forces on a home-made radio to arrange for his escape by submarine.The Jungle is Neutral is Spencer Chapman’s riveting account of unimaginable hardship and unbreakable will in the face of a ruthless enemy. As a tale of endurance and survival it is unsurpassed. As a war story, it is without rival.***‘The greatest war hero you’ve probably never heard of ... As a tale of endeavour and endurance it won’t be surpassed’ Sunday Times‘One of the greatest war stories’ Daily Express‘Extraordinary’ Guardian‘A great British war hero’ Chris Ryan, author of The One That Got Away‘I very much doubt that anyone can equal his adventures or achievements’ Louis Mountbatten‘A thrilling book. Suspense pervades every page for he was never out of danger’ Spectator‘Utterly absorbing’ BBC‘A thrilling story. A brave man’ New York Times‘A one-man army. His story of endurance is surely one of the most awe-inspiring of the whole war’ Daily Mail</p>

The Jungle is Neutral: The Epic True Story of One Man’s War Behind Enemy Lines

Military

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