View Helmet For My Pillow Excerpt PNG. Chapter one boot a cutting wind slanted up church street in the cheerless dawn of january 5, 1942. 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.
Robert leckie that was written after his participation in the war, which became one of the main sources for the hbo miniseries, the pacific 1 history 2 differences from the series 3 trivia 4 see also according to his wife, vera leckie, the book was first conceived in 1951 after leckie saw a musical.
In the later years of his life he developed alzheimer's disease. By leckie, robert seller comic world published 1979 condition very good + edition first edition by this publisher isbn 9780553126631 item price $ 34.95. 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. Robert leckie enlisted in the united states marine corps in january 1942, shortly after the japanese attack on pearl harbor.