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 one hell of a book.
Helmet for my pillow book 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.
The book has been awarded with and many others.
Helmet for my pillow is a grand and epic prose poem.
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Unparalleled in its immediacy and accuracy helmet for my pillow will leave no reader untouched.
Woven throughout are leckie s hard won eloquent and thoroughly unsentimental meditations on the meaning of war and why we fight.
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.
Now producers tom hanks steven spielberg and gary goetzman the men behind band of brothers have adapted material from helmet for my pillow for hbo s epic miniseries the pacific which will thrill and edify a whole new generation.
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.
The book was published in multiple languages including consists of 336 pages and is available in paperback format.
But at other times you will be riveted and saddened by the loss of great heroes like lt racehorse and many.
And you will be reading it and people in the other room will ask you what s so funny because you often laugh out loud at the wonderfully entertaining style leckie uses.
Free download or read online helmet for my pillow pdf epub book.
It struck me that that book was more concisely and better written and presented than this helmet for my pillow work however upon some investigation i found that helmet was his first book and the other at least 15 years later and that leckie was a rather prolific author of war history most heavily from wwii era.
Recounting his service with the 1st marine division and the brutal action on guadalcanal new britain and peleliu leckie spares no detail.
Helmet for my pillow is the type of book you simply can t put down.
The first edition of the novel was published in 1957 and was written by robert leckie.
