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PublisherGlobe Pequot Press, T.H.E.
ISBN-101592281079
ISBN-139781592281077
eBay Product ID (ePID)5926903
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Book TitleJungle Is Neutral : a Soldier's Two-Year Escape from the Japanese Army
Number of Pages350 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicAsia / Southeast Asia, Military / World War II, General, Military
Publication Year2003
GenreBiography & Autobiography, History
AuthorF. Spencer Chapman
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
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Reviews"The Jungle Is Neutral is a fascinating story . . . it is a thrilling chapter of a brave man's life." --The New York Times, " The Jungle Is Neutral is a fascinating story . . . it is a thrilling chapter of a brave man's life." -- The New York Times, "The Jungle Is Neutralis a fascinating story . . . it is a thrilling chapter of a brave man's life." --The New York Times
SynopsisTHE 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 Malaysia. 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 plasticine 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 with carbon, 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.
