Helmet For My Pillow Robert Leckie Review

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

Robert leckie enlisted in the united states marine corps in january 1942 shortly after the japanese attack on pearl harbor. Helmet for my pillow is the personal narrative written by world war ii united states marine corps veteran author and military historian robert leckie first published in 1957 the story begins with leckie s enlisting in the united states marines shortly after the 1941 attack on pearl harbor. 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 lived this story and tells it from his memory 12 years after ww2 ended.

The hbo mini series the pacific 2010 was adapted in large part from helmet for my pillow along. Return to book reviews main menu. 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.

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