A Private War

Fredrick Draper's diaries chart the fortitude of a soldier fighting in the Far East during World War Two. Offering a fresh, unfettered account of the daily trials of wartime service, his record of life in Egypt, Libya, Palestine, Transjordan, Ceylon, India and Burma - copied word for word from his original hand-written notebooks - reveals a fresh, unheard account of what it was like to serve in some of the most challenging environments of the war. Private Draper's story is one of survival, commi