The Jungle is Neutral
CHAPMAN, F. Spencer
With a Foreword by Field Marshal Earl Wavell.
NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Published: Chatto & Windus, 1949
Stock code: 50986
Price: £85.00
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 37 plates on 24, 4 full-page maps in the text and large folding coloured map at end, some faint offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; ivory buckram, backstrip lettered in green, green top, a near fine copy in unclipped but worn and defective dustwrapper, the wrapper with large loss from tail and lower fifth of rear panel.
First edition of this 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'. Enser, p.253.