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, commitment and comradery. He writes with painstaking honesty ... but always from the heart. For the first time, eighty years on from when it was written, A Private War tells the story of one man's life-changing experiences in the Second World War.