Helmet for My Pillow (Bantam War Book Series) - Softcover

Leckie, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553282654 ISBN 13: 9780553282658

Publisher: Bantam Books, 1992

Synopsis

Robert Leckie, one of America's greatest military historians, was both an eyewitness and participant to some of the greatest battles in the Pacific. This is Leckie's vivid account of combat and survival in World War II. In January 1942, in the aftermath of the infamous Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the United States Marines Corps. From boot camp in Parris Island to the bloody war in the Pacific, Robert Leckie experienced it all. The booze, the brawling, the loving on sixty-two-hour leave; the courageous fighting and dying in combat as the US Marines slugged it out, inch by inch, island by island across the Pacific to the shores of Japan.

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"One hell of a book! The real stuff that proves the U.S. Marines are the greatest fighting men on earth!"

“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

“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"

"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

"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"

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

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"

"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

"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

From the Publisher

Robert Leckie's gripping memoir of fighting as a US Marines in World War II, which inspired the major new Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg HBO series, The Pacific.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553282654
• ISBN 13: 9780553282658
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback