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

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, writes 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 Sa...