Helmet for my Pillow Helmet for my Pillow

Helmet for my Pillow

The World War Two Pacific Classic

    • 4.5 • 104 Ratings
    • £4.99
    • £4.99

Publisher Description

The inspiration behind the 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 the war's fiercest fighting took place. Recounting his service with the 1st Marine Division and the brutal action on Guadalcanal, New Britain and Peleliu, Leckie spares no detail of the horrors and sacrifice of war, painting an unsentimental portrait of how real warriors are made, fight, and all too often die in the defence of their country.

From the live-for-today rowdiness of Marines on leave to the terrors of jungle warfare against an enemy determined to fight to the last man, Leckie describes what it's really like when victory can only be measured inch by bloody inch. Unparalleled in its immediacy and accuracy, Helmet for My Pillow tells the gripping true story of an ordinary soldier fighting in extraordinary conditions. This is a book that brings you as close to the mud, the blood, and the experience of war as it is safe to come.

'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

GENRE
Biography
RELEASED
2010
16 June
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
Ebury Publishing
SIZE
2
MB

Customer Reviews

Grifter1965 ,

A Helmet for a Pillow

I’ve read this a good few times , and it still sends a shiver down my spine what Lecky and co went through, sacrificed , for the freedom of the free world ! Simply incredible .

samhayes64 ,

Amazing

An incredible look into the life of a marine on Guadalcanal.

AndyDobeson ,

Brilliant

Leckies account of his experience in the Pacific is completely unimaginable, this book immerses you in realism, action and humor. 5 stars, easily,
RIP

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