A True Boy's Own Warrior ; Books

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Jungle Soldier By Brian Moynahan Quercus Pounds 18.99 .Pounds 17.09 inc p&p (0845 155 0713) *****

Lone warrior F. Spencer Chapman - Freddy to his friends - was known as the Second World War's answer to Lawrence of Arabia. But if anything, his exploits were braver and even more remarkable. Instead of the clean, open desert, Chapman had to survive for an astonishing 1,226 days in the green hell of the Malayan jungle, plagued by mosquitoes, snakes, tigers, crocodiles, poisonous centipedes, leeches, malaria and flesh-eating sores.

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A True Boy's Own Warrior ; Books

And instead of armies of romantic Arabs to accompany him, Chapman lived either alone or with humourless communist Chinese guerrillas deep behind the lines of the ruthless J...

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