JUNGLE SOLDIER
Written by Brian Moynahan
Published by Quercus
in 2009
ISBN: 1849160766
- Categorised in:
- MILITARY
- WORLD WAR II
- MALAYA
- BIOGRAPHY
JUNGLE SOLDIER
Written by Brian Moynahan.
Stock no. 1816271
Circa.
2009.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
The True Story of Freddy Spencer Chapman - how he fought and survived one thousand days behind Japanese lines in Malaya in World War II to become a legend of guerilla warfare. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 1849160766. Boards marked, spine slightly cocked, lower corners bumped. Pictorial dustwrapper is creased to top edge of rear panel.
Front cover
Contents
- List of Maps
- Prologue: Behind Enemy Lines
- 1. A Very English Boyhood
- 2. Journeys on the Ice Cap
- 3. Goodbye to a Golden Boy
- 4. Scrambles in Sikkim
- 5. The Mission
- 6. To War
- 7. Across the Main Range
- 8. The Mad Fortnight
- 9. Disasters and Decapitations
- 10. Birds and Bullets
- 11. 'Japun! Japun!"
- 12. The Betrayer
- 13. Journey to Shangri-La
- 14. A World Turned Upside Down
- 15. The Search for Noone
- 16. Taken by the Japanese
- 17. On the Run
- 18. The Traitor-Killing Camp
- 19. Hollow Days
- 20. Deliverance
- 21. The Lion in Winter
- Glossary
- Acknowledgements and Bibliography
- Index