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Pacific War diary, 1942-1945
Fahey, James J. [foreword, Samuel Eliot Morison; blurbs, Paul Fussell, Edward L Beach, Chester W Nimitz; design, Mark Caleb]
- Softcover
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 404 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. ; ISBN: 0395640229; 9780395640227 LCCN: 92-21716; LC: D773; Dewey: 940.54/5973 ; OCLC: 26095210 ; reprint of the book originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1963 ; Contents: Forward / Samuel Eliot Morison -- The Solomons, October 1942-May 1944 -- The Marianas, M…ay 1944-August 1944 -- U.S.A., August 1944-October 1944 -- The Philippines: Mindoro, Luzon, Palawan, October 1944-June 1945 -- Borneo, June 1945-July 1945 -- China and Japan, July 1945-December 1945. ; "This best-selling diary is one of the most extraordinary documents to emerge from World War II. Despite regulations, seaman James J. Fahey secretly compiled a diary on scraps of paper throughout the long World War II naval campaign in the Pacific. His diary describes an average sailor's daily life during wartime and records a personal view of a major historic event" ; FINE. Book.
