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Robert Leckie (1920–2001)

Forfatter af Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific

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Robert Leckie was born in 1920 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the age of 16, he began a career as a sportswriter for The Record of Hackensack. He also later worked as a reporter with the Associated Press, the Buffalo Courier Express, the New York Journal American, the New York Daily News and The vis mere Star-Ledger. The day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Leckie joined the Marines. He became a machine gunner and scout in the 1st Marine Division in the Pacific and participated in all of the Marine campaigns except Okinawa. He was awarded the Naval Commendation Medal with Combat V, the Purple Heart and five battle stars. Leckie was on active duty for three years and participated in six campaigns. It is because of his experience in the war that he chose to write about American military history. Most of his books trace American war history from the French and Indian War to Desert Storm. Leckie's first book was published in 1957, and was a personal narrative of his experiences in World War II. It was entitled "Helmet for My Pillow." His books covered the Civil War in "None Died in Vain: The Saga of the American Civil War," another World War II book called "Delivered from Evil: The Saga of World War II" and his one volume history entitled "The Wars of America." Leckie adapted many of his books for a younger audience and also wrote some fiction books. In 1969, the Leckies founded The Sportstman's Club at Lake Hopatcong, a physical fitness facility in New Jersey. The family owned the club until about eighteen months before Leckie's death. Robert Leckie died on December 24, 2001. He was 81 years old. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre

Omfatter også følgende navne: Robert Leckie, Illustrated Robert Leckie

Omfatter også: Roger Barlow (2), Mark Porter (1)

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Værker af Robert Leckie

The Battle for Iwo Jima (1967) 167 eksemplarer
The Wars of America (1968) 161 eksemplarer
A Few Acres of Snow (1999) 157 eksemplarer
The War in Korea (1963) 131 eksemplarer
The Story of World War II (1964) 71 eksemplarer
The Story of World War I (1965) — Redaktør — 41 eksemplarer
The Story of Football (1973) 31 eksemplarer
The March to Glory (1960) 31 eksemplarer
Black Treasure (1959) 14 eksemplarer
Secret Mission to Alaska (1959) 13 eksemplarer
The Bloodborn (1981) 13 eksemplarer
Marines! (1960) 13 eksemplarer
Fire at Red Lake (1959) 10 eksemplarer
Danger at Mormon Crossing (1959) 9 eksemplarer
American and Catholic (1970) 8 eksemplarer
The General (1991) 8 eksemplarer
Troubled Waters (1959) 7 eksemplarer
Stormy Voyage (1959) 6 eksemplarer
Warfare (1970) 6 eksemplarer
Forged in Blood (1982) 6 eksemplarer
The War Nobody Won, 1812 (1974) 5 eksemplarer
The Korean War (1962) 3 eksemplarer
Ordained (1969) 2 eksemplarer
Duel on the Cinders (1960) 2 eksemplarer
Lord, What a Family! 2 eksemplarer
Blood of Seventeen (1983) 1 eksemplar
Slashing Blades 1 eksemplar
Winning Pitcher (1960) 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

The Pacific [2010 TV miniseries] (2010) — Original novels — 175 eksemplarer
I Was a Kamikaze (1973) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver47 eksemplarer
Corregidor (1967) — Forord — 47 eksemplarer
Verhalen omnibus (1967) — Bidragyder — 7 eksemplarer
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 2010 (2010) — Author "The Battle of Tenaru River" — 3 eksemplarer

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Leckie’s memoir of his experiences in the Pacific campaign of WW2 is one my favorite memoirs. Why? Because it is so well written. His vivid descriptions of combat impress on the reader a true sense of reality, of being there in that foxhole.

“I think of Judgment Day. I think of Götterdämmerung; I think of the stars exploding, of the planets going off like fireworks; I think of a volcano; I think of a roaring and an energy unbelievable; I think, of holocaust; and again I think of night reeling from a thousand scarlet slashes and I see the red eye of hell winking in her wounds—I think of all these, and I cannot tell you what I have seen, the terrible spectacle I witnessed from that hillside.”

Leckie's emotional descriptions and writing style, rather than the storyline, are the primary reasons for my 5 star review. This is not your everyday ghost-written war memoir, describing a litany of deeds written in essay style. Leckie lyrically emphasizes his objection to war, maybe not realized while experienced, but certainly at the time of writing.

The Epilogue poignantly describes Leckie's experience of the end of the war in the pacific and is asking us the question if the end really justified the means: Leckie answers in his final sentence, "... dear Father, forgive us for that awful cloud."
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amurray914 | 27 andre anmeldelser | Feb 27, 2024 |
Las memorias de Robert Leckie constituyen uno de los más apasionantes relatos de un testigo directo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En enero de 1942, poco después del ataque japonés a Pearl Harbor, se alistó en el cuerpo de marines de los Estados Unidos. En Mi casco por almohada narra su odisea, desde el durísimo entrenamiento en Carolina del Sur hasta las feroces batallas de la campaña del Pacífico.
 
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Natt90 | 27 andre anmeldelser | Jan 15, 2023 |
Another great Pacific war memoir. Compares to "With the Old Breed" which I also read.
 
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kslade | 27 andre anmeldelser | Dec 8, 2022 |
Solid enlisted Marine's memoir of his war. Leckie became a career journalist, and this reads like it was reported from a local park.
 
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kcshankd | 27 andre anmeldelser | Apr 24, 2022 |

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