Helmet For My Pillow Review

Robert leckie s theme is the purely human experience of war in the pacific written in the graceful imagery of a human being who somehow survived tom hanks one hell of a book.

Helmet for my pillow review.

Helmet for my pillow is a grand and epic prose poem. Helmet for my pillow robert leckie robert leckie chuckler runner lt. One person found this helpful. Ivy league sergeant dandy red general smedley butler big ski lieutenant racehores the chicken hope mr.

Reviewed in the united states on january. Helmet for my pillow is a grand and epic prose poem. Helmet for my pillow is very different from william manchester s goodbye darkness another compelling us marine memoir of the pacific war. Robert leckie s theme is the purely human experience of war in the pacific written in the graceful imagery of a human being who somehow survived tom hanks a powerful book that pulls no punches the new york review of books one hell of a book.

Manchester s work is also profound but is much more meditative introspective and somber. 4 0 out of 5 stars great telling of a marine s story in the pacific. January 2 2018. 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.

Helmet for my pillow is the personal narrative written by world war ii united states marine corps veteran author and military historian robert leckie first published in 1957 the story begins with leckie s enlisting in the united states marines shortly after the 1941 attack on pearl harbor. Helmet for my pillow is an excellent portrait of small pieces of imperfections coming together to achieve something far greater than any single person can understand. 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. But at other times you will be riveted and saddened by the loss of great heroes like lt racehorse and many.

4 0 out of 5 stars great telling of a marine s story in the pacific. Five by five oakstump the commander father straight buri colonel lieutenant big picture sergeant major the story is about a man named robert leckie who. Helmet for my pillow is an excellent portrait of small pieces of imperfections coming together to achieve something far greater than any single person can understand. Recounting his service with the 1st marine division and the brutal action on guadalcanal new britain and peleliu leckie spares no detail.

The hbo mini series the pacific 2010 was adapted in large part from helmet for my pillow along. Helmet for my pillow is the type of book you simply can t put down. 0 comment report abuse tpw. 0 comment report abuse tpw.