The Jungle is Neutral: A Soldier's Two-Year Escape from the Japanese Army

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Chapman's medals and awards include: Arctic Medal (1931), Gill Memorial Medal (Royal Geographical Society, 1941), Mungo Park Medal (Royal Scottish Geographical Society, 1948), Sunday Times Special Award and Gold Medal (1949), and the Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Medal (Royal Central Asian Society, 1950). He was also the subject of the British televion programme 'This is your Life' on 23 December 1963. Instead of being overwhelmed and paralyzed by endless what-ifs, exceptional investors take control and deliberately direct their attention and effort towards meaningful, specific work. Entry in: The Concise Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford: Oxford University Press, March 1992 This is simple goal-directed behavior. John Leach, who has studied why some people survive extreme events and others perish, explains why goal-directed behavior is critical to responding well under adversity: It gives you a glimpse of how living in the jungle during the Japanese Occupation in WW2 feels like. What's cool is that the author is a British soldier who graduated from Cambridge and an expert in guerilla warfare. He lived with the Chinese guerillas, barely had food to eat, waded through a river with crocodiles, captured by the Japanese and there's a lot more life-threatening experience that you can read from this book. It somehow made me appreciate more of my grandparents for enduring through such a horrible and difficult period in Malaya.

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Moynahan, Brian (2009) Jungle Soldier: The True Story of Freddy Spencer Chapman, Quercus, ISBN 1-84916-076-7 Barker, Ralph. One Man's Jungle: a biography of F. Spencer Chapman . London: Chatto & Windus, 1975. We live in an era when thousands of utterly rank books are published every year claiming to offer 'inspirational' or 'motivational' advice, churning out the same pap trash. If you want to read something truly inspiring, "The Jungle is Neutral" may not necessarily be an easy read, but it's certainly an inspirational one. It will help put into perspective any problems or adversity you face. Tan Chong Tee, Force 136, Story of a WWII resistance fighter, Asiapac Books, Singapore, 1995, ISBN 981-3029-90-0 This is brilliant account of author wherein he describes his years behind enemy lines in Japanese occupied Malaya.Chapman was educated at Sedbergh School in Yorkshire and then won a Kitchener scholarship to St. John's College, Cambridge, to study history and English. It was there that he developed his passion for adventure and, by the end of his university years, had already completed several overseas excursions including a climbing expedition in the Alps and a journey to Iceland to study plant and bird life. Lccn 88029554 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL2051825M Openlibrary_edition Anyway, onto the review. Chapman's story is focused entirely on the three years he spent in the Malayan jungle just before and during the Japanese occupation of Malaya (Malaysia today). During that time, he trained and lived with Chinese guerillas, was captured by and escaped from the Japanese, collected plant and flower samples, wrote training manuals and newsletters and most of all, gives us a very real account of the jungle being your home. The Mission to the Tibetan capital departed from Gangtok (Sikkim) in late July 1936 and left Tibet just over six months later in February 1937. The aim of the Mission was to advise the Regent of Tibet and his Cabinet, to persuade the Panchen Lama to return from China where he had fled, and, if possible, to establish permanent British representation in Lhasa. The mission personnel, under the leadership of Gould, included Hugh Richardson, the British Trade Agent at Gyantse, and Lieutenant Evan Nepean, one of two telegraph operators sent from the Royal Signal Corps.

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These army patrol ration dehydrated meals were developed by the Defence Science and Technology Organisation’s Food and Nutrition section in Scottsdale in Tasmania and are available to ADF personnel in a wide range of flavours in the different PR1M menus. This classic tale has been compared to Lawrence of Arabia's classic account, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, and the gritty account of day-to-day operations is so accurate that the French Foreign Legion used the book as a primer on jungle warfare. It is a war story without rival. I figured this is a topic which would appeal to my fellow Australian readers. and it serves as a nice intro to a series of posts on Australian Army Lightweight/Patrol rations from the 1940s to the present day.No environment, no matter how adverse, determines how you can or will react. You decide how you will react. That’s the power of agency. And that has lessons for investors.

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The most unusual lines of the book have to be these: "At this meal there was a meat dish about which there seemed to be some mystery. I found it very good, being less rank then monkey though not so good as jungle pig. After the meal I was told that I had been eating Jap. Though I would not knowingly have become a cannibal I was quite interested to have sampled human flesh". The other school of thought, that the jungle teems with wild animals, fowls, and fish which are simply there for the taking, and the luscious tropical fruits-pawpaw, yams, bread-fruit and all that, drop from the trees, is equally misleading. The truth is that the jungle is neutral. It provides any amount of fresh water, and unlimited cover for friend as well as foe – an armed neutrality, if you like, but neutrality nevertheless. It is the attitude of mind that determines whether you go under or survive. There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so. The jungle itself is neutral. You get a sense that he threw in with the communist Chinese guerrillas despite their politics in frustration at how little the British were doing to exploit an ideal geographical and cultural environment for insurgency. My experience is that the length of life of the British private soldier accidentally left behind in the Malayan [modern day Malaysia] jungle was only a few months…to them the jungle seemed predominantly hostile, being full of man-eating tigers, deadly fevers, venomous snakes and scorpions, natives with poison darts, and a host of half-imagined nameless terrors. They were unable to adapt themselves to a new way of life and a diet of rice and vegetables; in this green hell they expected to be dead within a few weeks – and as a rule they were… After the war, Chapman was asked to form a school in Germany for the sons and daughters of British Forces and Control Commission Civilians resident in the British Zone of occupied Germany. This school, the King Alfred School, Plön, for children 11 to 18 years of age, used the German naval establishment at Plön in Schleswig-Holstein where Admiral Dönitz had resided during the last days of World War II. Chapman, as headmaster, set up the school, organised the teachers, arranged for the alterations to accept both boys and girls, and then in one day in 1948 accepted 400 young boys and girls into what was possibly the first successful comprehensive, co-educational boarding school in the world. His dynamism and understanding of the requirements of young people were the guiding influence in setting up the school to become a first class success story which lasted for 11 years. He was relieved after its successful commencement, at which time he continued in educational work as Headmaster of St Andrew's College, Grahamstown, South Africa [17] (1956–61) Then Warden at the Pestalozzi Children’s Village Sedlescombe between (1962–66) and Warden of Wantage Hall at the University of Reading (1966–71).