Helmet for My Pillow

Artikelnummer: sg9780091937515
GTIN: 9780091937515
Kategorie: Sonstiges

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Beschreibung

This title is the inspiration behind the HBO series The Pacific . Here is one of the most riveting first-person accounts to ever come out of the Second World War. Robert Leckie was 21 when he enlisted in the US Marine Corps in January 1942. In Helmet for My Pillow we follow his journey, from boot camp on Parris Island, South Carolina, all the way to the raging battles in the Pacific, where some of the war's fiercest fighting took place. Recounting his service with the 1st Marine Division and the brutal action on Guadalcanal, New Britain and Peleliu, Leckie spares no detail of the horrors and sacrifice of war, painting an unsentimental portrait of how real warriors are made, fight, and all too often die in the defence of their country. From the live-for-today rowdiness of Marines on leave to the terrors of jungle warfare against an enemy determined to fight to the last man, Leckie describes what it's really like when victory can only be measured inch by bloody inch. Unparalleled in its immediacy and accuracy, Helmet for My Pillow is a gripping account from an ordinary soldier fighting in extraordinary conditions. This is a book that brings you as close to the mud, the blood, and the experience of war as it is safe to come. 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 - survived . (Tom Hanks).

Gewicht_attribut:	220 gr
Autor:	Robert Leckie
Seitenzahl:	305
Verlag:	Random House UK
Sprache:	Englisch
Format:	Taschenbuch
ISBN:	9780091937515
Veröffentlichungsdatum:	20110203
Produktnummer Verlag:	3279
Lieferinfo:	Bestellware: Die Ware ist beim Lieferant in Schweden nicht vorrätig. Die Bearbeitungszeit wird sich um einige Tage verlängern. Bitte rechnen Sie mit 15-16 Tagen Lieferzeit. Die Lieferzeit hängt auch davon ab, an welchem Wochentag Sie bestellen.
Gewicht:	219 gr