Helmet For My Pillow Robert Leckie Review

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.

Helmet for my pillow robert leckie review.

The hbo mini series the pacific 2010 was adapted in large part from helmet for my pillow along. This world war ii classic is the story of the author robert leckie. Helmet for my pillow from parris island to the pacific. Robert leckie lived this story and tells it from his memory 12 years after ww2 ended.

He has a knack for giving colorful nicknames to his comrades based on their physical or personality characteristics i e. 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. By robert leckie ibooks 2010 reprint softcover 324 pages isbn.

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. After watching the excellent adaptation i sought out the original and am glad i did. 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. Leckie s original description of what he and so many other world war ii marines went through was well worth reading.

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.