Helmet For My Pillow: The World War II Classic

In January 1942, in the aftermath of the infamous Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Robert Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. From boot camp in Parris Island to the bloody war in the Pacific, Robert Leckie experienced it all. The booze, the brawling, the loving on sixty-two-hour liberty; the courageous fighting and dying in combat as the U.S. Marines slugged it out, inch by inch, island by island across the Pacific to the shores of Japan.