The Jungle is Neutral: The World Famous True Story of Guerilla Warfare Against the Japanese in Malaya - Couverture souple

Chapman F Spencer

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9812047735 ISBN 13 : 9789812047731

Editeur : Times Editions, 2008

Synopsis

"The Jungle is Neutral" is British soldier, Spencer Chapman's incredible story of his three and a half years in the Malayan jungle during World War II. A moving unforgettable saga of deadly encounters with the enemy, fortitude, horrifying diseases, death, and ultimately, victory. A story of true grit, endurance and survival beyond the normal capacity for survival.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Times Editions
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9812047735
• ISBN 13: 9789812047731
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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