This is an auction for THE FARAWAY WAR: PERSONAL DIARIES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC by Richard J Aldrich.

Amazon.com review:

"Now in paperback, Aldrich’s second fascinating volume of diaries originally published to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the war against the Japanese. Following the illuminating first-hand revelations about the war in Europe and the Middle East compiled in Witness to War, Richard Aldrich now taps into another vast range of diarists to explore the Second World War in the Pacific. From the dramatic bombing of Pearl Harbor to the devastating moment when the atomic bomb was dropped upon Hiroshima, the war is brought to life through the diaries of people on all sides. With events recorded as they happened we are drawn into a chronological account of the war by Aldrich’s expert month-by-month commentary. THE FARAWAY WAR offers a stunning and diverse array of diaries, focusing both on ordinary people, some of whose diaries are published here for the first time, and on more celebrated figures such as Evelyn Waugh, Charles Lindbergh, Harry Truman and Joyce Grenfell. With this second volume, Richard Aldrich now completes the picture that he began with Witness to War, by creating an intimate and illuminating portrait of a whole world ravaged by war."

More very favourable reviews on Amazon.com.

Paperback 2006.

910 pages.

16 pages of photographs.

Good condition.

The cost of shipping is $4.95 (ordinary post) or $5.95 (tracked mail). If you are on rural delivery and want tracked mail, the shipping cost will be $8.95.

There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Wellington following the auction.

Payment within seven days, please.