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Wilderness survival meets wartime espionage thrills.

If you're drawn to stories of sheer determination and survival against the odds, "Jungle Soldier" won't disappoint. Freddy Spencer Chapman's life reads like fiction, but his extraordinary exploits during World War II in occupied Malaya are historical fact. As a guerrilla soldier, his journey is not just about combat, it's about resilience in the harshest conditions imaginable. This book gives due homage to a hero whose physical and mental endurance transcends the average wartime tale.

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Jungle Soldier

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ISBN: 9781849162821
Authors: Brian Moynahan
Date of Publication: 2009-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: History, Biographies & Memoirs
Goodreads rating: 4.07
(rated by 447 readers)

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Brought up in a rural vicarage surrounded by fells, falcons and ferrets, Freddy Spencer Chapman acquired a deep love of nature and became 'fascinated by danger' during childhood. Thirty years later, as an SOE-trained guerrilla soldier of exceptional ability and courage, the orphan boy would prove to be one of the British army's deadliest agents. In 1941 Chapman was dispatched to Singapore to train British guerrillas for the coming war with Japan. Setting out from Kuala Lumpur on 7 January 1942 on a mission to sabotage Japanese supply lines, he became a veritable one-man army. The Japanese deployed 2,000 men to search for what they believed was a squad of 200 Australian guerrillas. Following Japan's invasion of Malaya and the fall of Singapore in February 1942, Chapman found himself stranded. Under these most desperate of circumstances, the man dubbed the 'the jungle Lawrence' by Field Marshal Wavell showed his bloody-minded talent for survival. Relentlessly hunted by the Japanese army, he was afflicted by typhus, scabies, pneumonia, blackwater fever, cerebral malaria, dengue fever and ulcers before finally being rescued and evacuated to Ceylon on 13 May 1945. Chapman returned to Malaya by parachute in August to take the Japanese surrender at Penang. Jungle Soldier is a unique and remarkable account of superhuman bravery and resourcefulness in adversity.
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Wilderness survival meets wartime espionage thrills.

If you're drawn to stories of sheer determination and survival against the odds, "Jungle Soldier" won't disappoint. Freddy Spencer Chapman's life reads like fiction, but his extraordinary exploits during World War II in occupied Malaya are historical fact. As a guerrilla soldier, his journey is not just about combat, it's about resilience in the harshest conditions imaginable. This book gives due homage to a hero whose physical and mental endurance transcends the average wartime tale.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.