Helmet for My Pillow Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Robert Leckie
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
278

Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie Book Summary

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 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. 

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 war is really like when victory can only be measured inch by bloody inch. Woven throughout are Leckie’s hard-won, eloquent, and thoroughly unsentimental meditations on the meaning of war and why we fight. Unparalleled in its immediacy and accuracy, Helmet for My Pillow will leave no reader untouched. 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.

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Book Name Helmet for My Pillow
Genre Military History
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 4.63 MB

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Should be required text for American History classes.. This ranks as one of the best first person accounts of the Pacific War I’ve read over the past 55 years. Like Phase Line Green, the author portrays himself as a young man trying to do the best.

Could not stop reading. Amazing story

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Summary of Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie

The Helmet for My Pillow book written by Robert Leckie was published on 23 August 2018, Thursday in the Military History category. A total of 278 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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