Helmet For My Pillow de Leckie, Robert - 1979

Garden City: Nelson Doubleday. Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket. 1979. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Some discoloration of DJ which is chipped with short tears, light spotting on page fore edges and light wear head and tail of book's spine ; A tight, solid book, DJ in Mylar ; B&W Illustrations; 277 pages; “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." This is one of the books that Spielberg's powerful "Pacific" TV series is based on - the personal account of an aspiring writer thrown into the hell that was Guadalcanal. .