Helmet for my Pillow, Paperback/Robert Leckie

A new edition of the classic memoir, originally published in the 1950s, which inspired the epic Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg HBO series }The Pacific{. Leckie was 21 when he enlisted in the US Marine Corps in January 1942, and here he tells his story, from boot camp to raging battles in the Pacific. 'A powerful book that pulls no punches' }The New York Review Of Books{