The Jungle is Neutral: A Soldier's Three Year Escape from the Japanese Army by Chapman Spencer

After the fall of Malaysia to the Japanese, the unflappable F. Spencer Chapman survived for years in the jungle as a guerilla fighter. The Jungle is Neutral is his amazing tale of survival and valor against all odds.

As he traveled by bicycle, motorcycle, dugout, on foot, or on his belly through the jungle muck, Chapman recruited sympathetic Chinese, Malays, Tamils, and Sakai tribesmen into an irregular corps of jungle fighters. Their mission: To harass the Japanese in any way possible. In riveting scene, Chapman recalls their daring raids as they blew up bridges, cut communications lines, and affixed plasticine to troop-filled trucks idling by the road. They threw grenades and disappeared into the jungle, their faces darkened with carbon, their tommy guns wrapped in tape so as not to reflect the moonlight. When Chapman wasn t battling the Japanese or escaping from their prisons, he found himself fighting the jungle s incessant rain, wild tigers, unfriendly tribesmen, leeches, disease, and malnutrition.

Product details

    Publisher ‏ : ‎ Marshall Cavendish International Pty Ltd; 2nd edition (January 1, 2015)
    Language ‏ : ‎ English
    ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9814516384
    ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9814516389
    Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.9 ounces
    Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.55 x 0.83 x 8.5 inches