Military History

The Diary of a British Prisoner-of-War of the Japanese in Indonesia, portrait frontispiece and b&w illustrations from photographs, drawings and cartoons, reproductions of documents, double-page map, index, xvi & 190 pp, neat inscription on front free endpaper, otherwise as new, Oleander Press (Cambridge) 1989

20.9 x 14 cm, 560g, ISBN 0 90667 255 4

Having trained as a newspaper reporter before the War, the author kept the diary in Pitman’s shorthand.

See the description (below) from the dustwrapper flap.

Surprisingly, in view of the book’s age, it is still shown as available in paperback at £19.95. This has not stopped one American bookseller offering an as-new copy at £49.84!