num_pages: 404
description: Throughout the World War II campaign in the Pacific, an ordinary seaman defied navy regulations by surreptitiously compiling a diary on scraps of paper. One of the most extraordinary personal documents to emerge from the war, James J. Fahey's diary presents a vivid picture of an average sailor's daily life -- from the first experience of battle in the waters surrounding the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific to the typhoons and food shortages to the final desperate attacks by kamikaze pilots and Japanese suicide ships near Okinawa.
language: English
title: Pacific War Diary, 1942-1945: The Secret Diary of an American Sailor
titlecomplete: Pacific War Diary, 1942-1945: The Secret Diary of an American Sailor
genres: Military Fiction, History, Japan, World War II, Memoir, Biography, War, Military History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 125
publisher: Mariner Books