Robert Leckie

Praise for Helmet for my Pillow

Helmet for My Pillow is a grand and epic prose poem. 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 - survive ...

Tom Hanks

A powerful book that pulls no punches

The New York Review of Books

One hell of a book! The real stuff that proves the U.S. Marines are the greatest fighting men on earth!

Leon Uris, author of Battle Cry

Helmet for My Pillow is a grand and epic prose poem. 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 - survive ...

Tom Hanks

A powerful book that pulls no punches

The New York Review of Books

One hell of a book! The real stuff that proves the U.S. Marines are the greatest fighting men on earth!

Leon Uris, author of Battle Cry

Helmet for My Pillow is a grand and epic prose poem. 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 - survive ...

Tom Hanks

A powerful book that pulls no punches

The New York Review of Books

One hell of a book! The real stuff that proves the U.S. Marines are the greatest fighting men on earth!

Leon Uris, author of Battle Cry