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Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
Robert Leckie
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| #5615 in Books | Bantam | 2010-02-02 | 2010-02-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.67 x5.20l,.53 | File type: PDF | 305 pages | Bantam||17 of 17 people found the following review helpful.| On the shelf with the best WWII books|By James Christ|I was given this book by a veteran named Robert Brutinel who had served in the Marine paratroops. He joined in 1942 and arrived on Guadalcanal after the climactic fighting. However, he served on Vella La Vella and Choiseul and then fought in the 5th Division and was wounded on Iwo. When he handed me the book he said, "If y||“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
Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts ever to come out of World War II. Robert Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in January 1942, shortly after the Japanese 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. Recounting his service with the 1st Marine ...
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