Helmet for My Pillow

*Helmet for My Pillow* is Robert Leckie's powerful first-person memoir of his service with the US Marine Corps in World War II. Enlisting at 21 in January 1942, Leckie recounts his journey from Parris Island boot camp to the brutal Pacific Theater. As a member of the 1st Marine Division, he details the harrowing battles on Guadalcanal, New Britain, and Peleliu. This unsentimental account unflinchingly portrays the horrors and sacrifices of war, revealing the making, fighting, and dying of Marines in extraordinary circumstances.

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