Helmet For My Pillow Robert Leckie Review

Helmet for my pillow from parris island to the pacific.

Helmet for my pillow robert leckie review.

This account is intimate and detailed. The hbo mini series the pacific 2010 was adapted in large part from helmet for my pillow along. Robert leckie lived this story and tells it from his memory 12 years after ww2 ended. 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.

Chucker runner smoothface amish ivy league chicken commando loudmouth racehorse artist etc. Return to book reviews main menu. This world war ii classic is the story of the author robert leckie. 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. After watching the excellent adaptation i sought out the original and am glad i did. 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.

Robert leckie enlisted in the united states marine corps in january 1942 shortly after the japanese attack on pearl harbor.