Helmet for My Pillow: The True, Incredible Story of the US Marines in World War II

by Robert Leckie

David Ballantine (Introduction)

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Robert Leckie, one of America's greatest military historians, was both an eyewitness and participant to some of the greatest battles in the Pacific. This is Leckie's vivid account of combat and survival in World War II. In January 1942, in the aftermath of the infamous Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the United States Marines Corps. From boot camp in Parris Island to the bloody war in the Pacific, Robert Leckie experienced it all. The booze, the brawling, the loving on sixty-two-hour leave; the courageous fighting and dying in combat as the US Marines slugged it out, inch by inch, island by island across the Pacific to the shores of Japan.
  • ISBN10 0743413075
  • ISBN13 9780743413077
  • Publish Date 1 April 2001 (first published 1 April 1989)
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Out of Print 25 August 2005
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster
  • Imprint ibooks Inc
  • Format Paperback (UK Trade)
  • Pages 304
  • Language English