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. Unparalleled in its immediacy and accuracy, Helmet for My Pillow will leave no one untouched. Woven throughout are Leckie's hard-won, eloquent, and thoroughly unsentimental meditations on the meaning of war and why we fight. 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 sacrifices of war, painting an unvarnished portrait of how real warriors are made, fight, and often die in the defense of their country.įrom 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 war is really like when victory can only be measured inch by bloody inch. 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. Robert Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in January 1942, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Urn:oclc:46433142 Republisher_date 20120228001043 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120223031139 Scanner is one of the most riveting first-person accounts ever to come out of World War II. OL1930064W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 95.45 Pages 310 Ppi 643 Related-external-id urn:isbn:009193754X Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:38:57 Boxid IA170801 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition Specially illustrated ed.
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