Jungle Soldier: The True Story of Freddy Spencer Chapman
An outstanding book, about an incredible man and his life story, focusing on his 'work' deep behind the Japanese lines in Malaysia during WWII. I always find it quite humbling to read these stories and to discover the depths a man will go to for his country. Seems like he caught every disease going whilst in the jungle yet managed to survive and still inflict huge amounts of damage to the Japanese war effort. His back story is one of exploring the Arctic as well as climbing 24,000' mountains for the equivalent cost of a camping stove on an Everest expedition that was being attempted at a similar time!
Worth a read.
