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Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific (Bantam Book # F3077 )
de Leckie, Robert
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Good / Very Good
- Librería
-
Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
CANADA. [Published Simultaneously with USA Ed): Bantam Books, 1965. Book. Illus. by Painted Cover. Good / Very Good. Soft cover. 5th Edition By This Publisher.. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 217 pages."Presents author's journey, from boot camp 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. This title provides details of the horrors and sacrifice of war, painting a portrait of how real warriors are made, fight, and often die in the defence of their country" >> Cover creasing; indents to front cover & first few pages; wear to paper spine; cover rubbing;.
Sinopsis
Robert Leckie was the author of more than thirty works of military history as well as Marines , a collection of short stories, and Lord, What a Family! , a memoir. Raised in Rutherford, New Jersey, he started writing professionally at age sixteen, covering sports for The Bergen Evening Record of Hackensack. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on the day following the attack on Pearl Harbor, going on to serve as a machine gunner and as an intelligence scout and participating in all 1st Marine Division campaigns except Okinawa. Leckie was awarded five battle stars, the Naval Commendation Medal with Combat V, and the Purple Heart. Helmet for My Pillow (Random House, 1957) was his first book; it received the Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association award upon publication.
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El Feb 17 2011, Maxie7 dijo:
Got it for my husband, a retired Marine. He loved it!
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Detalles
- Librería
- COMIC WORLD
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 16529-4
- Título
- Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific (Bantam Book # F3077 )
- Autor
- Leckie, Robert
- Ilustrador
- Painted Cover
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good / Very Good
- Edición
- 5th Edition By This Publisher.
- Editorial
- Bantam Books
- Lugar de publicación
- CANADA. [Published Simultaneously with USA Ed)
- Fecha de publicación
- 1965
- Tamaño
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
