by Brian Moynahan · Quercus · tapa dura · ISBN 9781849160766
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«Jungle Soldier: The True Story of Freddy Spencer Chapman» is the historical biography by Brian Moynahan, published by Quercus in hardback (338 pages).
True story of the Briton Freddy Spencer Chapman, raised in a rural rectory and trained by the SOE. Sent to Singapore in 1941, he was trapped after its fall in 1942; pursued by the Japanese, he survived in the jungle with typhus, malaria and other ailments, and was evacuated in 1945; he returned by parachute to accept the surrender at Penang.
Originally written in English and first published in 2009.
For readers of military history, Second World War biographies and survival stories.
Brian Moynahan was an English journalist, historian and biographer. He was born in 1941, the son of the dermatologist Edmund Moynahan of Guy's Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital. He was educated at Sherborne School and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he was a Foundation Scholar and editor of the student magazines Cambridge Opinion and Broadsheet. He graduated in 1962 with a double First in history.
