Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific (Bantam Book # F1826)
by Leckie, Robert
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
Synopsis
Robert Leckie was the author of more than thirty works of military history as well as Marines , a collection of short stories, and Lord, What a Family! , a memoir. Raised in Rutherford, New Jersey, he started writing professionally at age sixteen, covering sports for The Bergen Evening Record of Hackensack. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on the day following the attack on Pearl Harbor, going on to serve as a machine gunner and as an intelligence scout and participating in all 1st Marine Division campaigns except Okinawa. Leckie was awarded five battle stars, the Naval Commendation Medal with Combat V, and the Purple Heart. Helmet for My Pillow (Random House, 1957) was his first book; it received the Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association award upon publication.
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Got it for my husband, a retired Marine. He loved it!
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Details
- Bookseller
- COMIC WORLD (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16529-5
- Title
- Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific (Bantam Book # F1826)
- Author
- Leckie, Robert
- Illustrator
- Painted Cover
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition By This Publisher
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Place of Publication
- Canada
- Date Published
- 1958
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
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- 12mo
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