Helmet For My Pillow Robert Leckie Review

This account is intimate and detailed.

Helmet for my pillow robert leckie review.

Robert leckie lived this story and tells it from his memory 12 years after ww2 ended. Leckie s helmet for my pillow takes the reader from the hallowed training grounds of parris island through the months of chaos and death on guadalcanal to the misery and futility of cape gloucester and on to the bloody beaches and airfields of peleliu. That protects the real identities and adds to the color of mr. 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.

Helmet for my pillow from parris island to the pacific. 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. After watching the excellent adaptation i sought out the original and am glad i did. Return to book reviews main menu.

Leckie s original description of what he and so many other world war ii marines went through was well worth reading. 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. This world war ii classic is the story of the author robert leckie. The hbo mini series the pacific 2010 was adapted in large part from helmet for my pillow along.

By robert leckie ibooks 2010 reprint softcover 324 pages isbn.