03863cam a2200409 4500 233440176 TxAuBib 20150605120000.0 ||||||s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780553907483 0553907484 B0035J5DJ6 Amazon 9b3f8cc6-e089-4fb6-82c4-181561180b41 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 310495 OverDrive (Product ID) 99143 310495 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Leckie, Robert. Helmet for My Pillow [Libby] : From Parris Island to the Pacific. Random House Publishing Group, 2010. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3302kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. History. Military. Nonfiction. "One hell of a book! The real stuff that proves the U.S. Marines are the greatest fighting men on earth!". HTML:Leon Uris, author of <i>Battle Cry</i>. HTML:<p>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 <b>Helmet for My Pillow</b> 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.<br /> <br /> 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, <b>Helmet for My Pillow</b> 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.<br /> <br /> Now producers Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman, the men behind <i>Band of Brothers</i>, have adapted material from <b>Helmet for My Pillow</b> for HBO's epic miniseries <i>The Pacific</i>, which will thrill and edify a whole new generation.<br /> <br /> <i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i></p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2015-08-05 20:00:03. http://camellia.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=9b3f8cc6-e089-4fb6-82c4-181561180b41 http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/9B3/F8C/C6/HelmetforMyPillowFromParrisIslandtoth9780553907483.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9B3F8CC6-E089-4FB6-82C4-181561180B41&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/9B3/F8C/C6/HelmetforMyPillowFromParrisIslandtoth9780553907483.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9B3F8CC6-E089-4FB6-82C4-181561180B41&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/9B3/F8C/C6/HelmetforMyPillowFromParrisIslandtoth9780553907483.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9B3F8CC6-E089-4FB6-82C4-181561180B41&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)