Helmet for my Pillow
by Leckie, Robert
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued
- ISBN 10
- 0553593315
- ISBN 13
- 9780553593310
- Seller
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Weare,, New Hampshire, United States
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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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- Bookseller
- Boomer's Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35810
- Title
- Helmet for my Pillow
- Author
- Leckie, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0553593315
- ISBN 13
- 9780553593310
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2010
- Keywords
- 0553593315
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military History;
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