Author: CHAPMAN F. Spencer
Title: The Jungle is Neutral. With a Foreword by Field Marshal Earl Wavell. {Fourth Impression.] IN FULL MOROCCO; SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR
Description: Chatto & Windus,, 1949. 8vo., Fourth Impression, with portrait frontispiece, 37 plates on 24, 4 full-page maps and endpaper maps; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, all other compartments ruled and tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, original backstrip mounted on new leaf at front, custom-made slip-case, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE. Classic account of operations behind the lines in Malaya. Mountbatten declared that Colonel Chapman and his comrades 'did more than a whole division of the British Army could have achieved'. Published three months after the first edition. SIGNED COPIES ARE EXCEEDINGLY SCARCE. Enser, p.253.

Keywords: military, ww2, wwii, far east, malaya, jungle warfare, spencer chapman


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