Helmet For My Pillow Robert Leckie Review

In helmet for my pillow we follow his odyssey from basic training on parris island south carolina all the way to the raging battles in the pacific where some of the war s fiercest fighting took place.

Helmet for my pillow robert leckie review.

Helmet for my pillow from parris island to the pacific. That protects the real identities and adds to the color of mr. After watching the excellent adaptation i sought out the original and am glad i did. By robert leckie ibooks 2010 reprint softcover 324 pages isbn.

This world war ii classic is the story of the author robert leckie. Okay i ll admit it i first heard of robert leckie and his 1957 memoir helmet for my pillow when i watched hbo s the pacific. Return to book reviews main menu. This account is intimate and detailed.

Robert leckie enlisted in the united states marine corps in january 1942 shortly after the japanese attack on pearl harbor. Robert leckie lived this story and tells it from his memory 12 years after ww2 ended. Leckie s original description of what he and so many other world war ii marines went through was well worth reading. Leckie s helmet for my pillow takes the reader from the hallowed training grounds of parris island through the months of chaos and death on guadalcanal to the misery and futility of cape gloucester and on to the bloody beaches and airfields of peleliu.

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