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Ebook About Includes over 220 photos, maps and plans following Robert “Lucky” Leckie’s Pacific War with the 1st Marine Division“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. From the live-for-today rowdiness of marines on leave to the terrors of jungle warfare against an enemy determined to fight to the last man, Leckie describes what war is really like when victory can only be measured inch by bloody inch. Woven throughout are Leckie’s hard-won, eloquent, and thoroughly unsentimental meditations on the meaning of war and why we fight. Unparalleled in its immediacy and accuracy, Helmet for My Pillow will leave no reader untouched. 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.”-Print Ed.Book Helmet For My Pillow [Illustrated Edition] Review :
I was given this book by a veteran named Robert Brutinel who had served in the Marine paratroops. He joined in 1942 and arrived on Guadalcanal after the climactic fighting. However, he served on Vella La Vella and Choiseul and then fought in the 5th Division and was wounded on Iwo. When he handed me the book he said, "If you want to know what it was like, this is it." He thought the humor of the book and the camaraderie of the Marines was exactly like what he experienced. So I read the book. To this day, it is my all-time favorite Pacific theater book. And it's right up there, in my opinion, with the Forgotten Soldier on the "all-time best WWII book" shelf (with a handful of others.)I couldn't help but read some of the critical reviews. I completely disagreed with them. Often they accused the author, Robert Leckie, of having a great resentment toward leadership and authority. I did not find that the case at all. In fact, Leckie often praised officers and had great respect for the good ones. What he couldn't stand, and it shows in his book, is unfair use of power in leadership positions -- also called theft. In almost every instance, be it the cigars LT Ivy-League stole, or the Japanese footlocker stolen by LT Big Picture, Leckie had every right to be angry and I wonder if any of the people who criticized him would have acted any differently.Another criticized Leckie for drinking and womanizing when he was not in combat. Apparently that reader did not realize that Leckie (just like the thousands of other Marines who took liberty Down Under) had been on Guadalcanal for 5 months, with nothing but death staring him in the face and not a single woman to lay eyes on, and was now on liberty in the very country he had helped save from invasion, knowing he would be going back into combat soon. Leckie was no different than many of the other Marines, just more honest about it. I laughed at the part when a Marine was coming back from a rendezvous with a young Australian girl and commented to Leckie that the Australian girls had no morals. Leckie's comment to that hypocrisy made me laugh.Helmet for my pillow is the type of book you simply can't put down. 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. But at other times you will be riveted and saddened by the loss of great heroes like LT Racehorse and many others. (May they rest in peace.)Robert Leckie was truly a gifted writer and it's no wonder he made his career writing for newspapers and then writing best sellers. Fantastic book. If, after reading Ian Toll's terrific trilogy on the Pacific Theater, and watching 'The Pacific' for the umpteenth time, you decide to buy the trilogy of first-hand accounts by Tatum, Leckie and Sledge, read them in that order. Leave the best till last. That's not to say the first is not worth a read, it is; any such first-hand account is worth a read, no matter if it fits with your personal perception of how a book should be written or not. Tatum's is not written like Leckie's, which in turn is not written like Sledge's, yet they each have their character and worth. And if more people read such accounts, the world might just become a more appreciative place for the likes of men who willingly stand up to serve. It might, also, slow down in its rush to war.Leckie's book, here, is written much like Ambrose Bierce might actually scribe it. Bierce was not everyone's cup of tea, but he saw war and described the cruel consequence of it in a similar way. For that, well done Mr. Leckie, I enjoyed it, a lot. Thank you! Read Online Helmet For My Pillow [Illustrated Edition] Download Helmet For My Pillow [Illustrated Edition] Helmet For My Pillow [Illustrated Edition] PDF Helmet For My Pillow [Illustrated Edition] Mobi Free Reading Helmet For My Pillow [Illustrated Edition] Download Free Pdf Helmet For My Pillow [Illustrated Edition] PDF Online Helmet For My Pillow [Illustrated Edition] Mobi Online Helmet For My Pillow [Illustrated Edition] Reading Online Helmet For My Pillow [Illustrated Edition] Read Online Robert Leckie Download Robert Leckie Robert Leckie PDF Robert Leckie Mobi Free Reading Robert Leckie Download Free Pdf Robert Leckie PDF Online Robert Leckie Mobi Online Robert Leckie Reading Online Robert LeckieDownload Mobi Actionable Agile Metrics For Predictability: An Introduction By Daniel Vacanti
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