26+ A Helmet For My Pillow Images. Helmet for my pillow is a grand and epic prose poem. Recounting his service with the 1st marine division and the brutal action on guadalcanal, new britain, and peleliu, leckie spares no detail.
To begin to fill this gap in my own understanding, i recently read helmet for my pillow robert lecke, 1957, 305 pp. and with the old breed [e.b.
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. And these are the men i knew—captain dreadnought, lieutenant commando, pvt. Helmet for my pillow | a grand and epic prose poem. In the later years of his life he developed alzheimer's disease.