Helmet for my Pillow
The World War Two Pacific Classic
$41.96
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2011
Summary
Robert Leckie’s gripping memoir of fighting as a US Marine in World War 2, which inspired the epic Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg HBO series, The Pacific.
Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts to ever come out of World War 2. Robert Leckie was 21 when he enlisted in the US Marine Corps in January 1942. In Helmet for My Pillow we follow his journey, from boot camp on Parris Island, South Carolina, all the way to the raging battles in the Pacific, where some of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780091937515 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0091937515 |
| Author: | Robert Leckie |
| Publisher: | Ebury Publishing |
| Imprint: | Ebury Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2011 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 126mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Helmet for My Pillow is a grand and epic prose poem. Robert Leckie’s theme is the purely human experience of war in the Pacific, written in the graceful imagery of a human being who - somehow - survived – Tom Hanks
A powerful book that pulls no punches * The New York Review of Books *
One hell of a book! The real stuff that proves the U.S. Marines are the greatest fighting men on earth! – Leon Uris, author of Battle Cry
Robert Leckie
Robert Leckie was born on December 18, 1920 in Philadelphia. After enlisting in the United States Marine Corps shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, he worked in the 1st Marine Division as a machine gunner and as an intelligence scout during the Battle of Guadalcanal. He was later awarded the Purple Heart. Helmet for My Pillow received the Marine Corps Combat Correspondents’ Annual Award in 1957. He died in December 2001.
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