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S'està carregant… The Jungle is Neutral: A Soldier's Two-Year Escape from the Japanese Army (1949 original; edició 2003)de F. Spencer Chapman (Autor)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. During four years of the Second World War the author survived the Japanese, considerable privation and various illnesses in the jungles of Malaya, in his own way making a significant contribution to the war effort until liberation. His astonishing endurance and resourcefulness makes this the kind of true story that leaves adventure fiction for dead. The story telling of the Japanese invasion of Peninsula Malaysia, during the 2nd World War, and one of only a few Classics of Malaysian literature that is printed in English language. English soldiers helped train the locals in fighting against the Japanese, yet not all locals were on the side of the terrorist like fighters which the English soldiers were helping. Knowing the Japanese used bicycles in their army I was keen to discover several mentions of bicycles being used for travel in diffiuclt jungle like terrain. But also the descriptions of the hardships of travel were very good and upon reading the story you could really understand the challenges involved. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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 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. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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