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

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I liked this book, but I never would have made it in his situation. I can't really express how much I admire this man and how he persevered in the face of everything he went through. During the course of one year, he mentions dealing with malaria for at least one-third to one half of the time. That's crazy. As for the writing itself, it can be a bit repetitive at times, but that's reflective of what he went through. When you deal with malaria numerous times, it's going to be mentioned numerous times. This isn't a criticism, it's just an observation. The Jungle is Neutral" is British soldier, Spencer Chapman's incredible story of his three and a half years in the Malayan jungle during World War II. A moving unforgettable saga of deadly encounters with the enemy, fortitude, horrifying diseases, death, and ultimately, victory. A story of true grit, endurance and survival beyond the normal capacity for survival. Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.1

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It’s always your interpretation of things that’s the problem, not the thing itself. And it’s your interpretation of market events that are the problem, not the events themselves. I can't begin to explain what the rain forest is like. To explain it, you'd have to be a poet and a scientist and a horror writer. All I can say is how it makes you feel. You feel small. Tiny. Alone. Hopelessly weak. Afraid. When Singapore fell to the Japanese in December 1941, Captain Freddie Spencer Chapman chose to take the fight to the enemy . My Perentie FFR in “expedition” mode at Normanton in Queensland’s Gulf Country on my way from Darwin to Cape YorkGino Watkins moulded an extraordinary esprit de corps in his expeditions, and the expedition members were a mixture of hard nuts, and rather fey Cambridge misfits. [ citation needed] Many of the members would go on to do extraordinary things in the war. These members included Martin Lindsay, Augustine Courtauld and Chapman himself. This chapter “The Ghost Soldiers”, showed us how Tim O’Brien and the other soldiers were dealing with the war both physically and psychologically. It also shows us how the Tim O'Brien behaved and felt when he was shot, wounded and had a bacteria infection on his butt and how the war changed the way he thought, and viewed the other soldiers around him. The decisions and outcomes of these groups were not predetermined by destiny nor fate nor lottery. It was the investors’ actions that led to the results they got. That’s it. Actions that were under their control. Actions that are freely available to any market participant, if they choose.

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