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Categories Home Apparel Artwork Books Cameras & Photography Dental Loupes Dental Office Supplies Dental Supplies Education Instruments (Small Tools) Jewelry Magazines & Journals Oral Health Products Software Toys and Games Videos		Home > Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific By Robert Leckie List Price: $16.00 Our Price: $10.88 Eligible for FREE SHIPPING on orders over $25.00. Details You Save: $5.12 (32%) From our affiliated sellers: 45 New from $8.92 88 Used from $4.27 Availability:  Usually ships in 24 hours Publisher:  Bantam Books Published:  December 31, 1969 Binding:  Paperback Pages:  305 We also have these Versions FormatEdition Published New from Used from Hardcover  December 31, 1969 - - Audio CD  (Unabridged,Library - Unabridged CD Edition) February 26, 2010 $40.15 $40.38 Kindle Edition  January 22, 2010 - - Audio CD  (Unabridged,MP3 - Unabridged CD Edition) February 26, 2010 $14.76 $13.65 Preloaded Digital Audio Player  May 1, 2010 $49.95 - Audio CD  (Unabridged,Unabridged CD Edition) February 26, 2010 $19.50 $5.97   Product Description:   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. Now producers Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman, the men behind Band of Brothers, have adapted material from Helmet for My Pillow for HBO?s epic miniseries The Pacific, which will thrill and edify a whole new generation.   Be the first to add a review		47% With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa 82% Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific 85% Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines Against Japan 39% China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II 47% With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa 36% You'll Be Sor-ree!: A Guadalcanal Marine Remembers The Pacific War (Military History) 40% Challenge for the Pacific: Guadalcanal: The Turning Point of the War 67% I'm Staying with My Boys: The Heroic Life of Sgt. John Basilone, USMC 50% One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle for Tarawa

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