num_pages: 416
description: 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.
language: English
title: Pacific War Diary, 1942-1945
titlecomplete: Pacific War Diary, 1942-1945
genres: History, World War II, Japan, War, Biography, Military History, Memoir, Nonfiction, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 125
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company