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25 de may. de 1995 · I enjoyed Robert Leckie's autobiography, Helmet for My Pillow (one of the biographies that inspired the HBO miniseries The Pacific). So when I found out that he had written a book on the battle of Okinawa, Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II (1996), before I was scheduled for my second visit to the island I knew it would be my background reading there.
2 de feb. de 2010 · Robert Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in January 1942, shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In Helmet for My Pillow we follow his odyssey, from basic training 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.
21 de sept. de 2023 · Robert Leckie's book, Helmet For My Pillow, has no accounts of a girl named Stella. However, Leckie does mention someone named Sheila in his memoir, who seems to be the inspiration behind Stella in The Pacific. Like Stella, Sheila had allowed Leckie to stay at her home. However, unlike the show, Leckie's friend, Chuckler, had also accompanied them.
26 de dic. de 2021 · HBO’s The Pacific introduced viewers to Robert Leckie (James Badge Dale) and Eugene Sledge (Joseph Mazzello), two veterans of the Pacific theatre, and both of them lived long and interesting lives far beyond their wartime exploits. While the series makes an effort to show the consequences of their combat experience, it still doesn’t quite do them justice.
4.36. 491 ratings40 reviews. From Robert Leckie, the World War II veteran and New York Times bestselling author of Helmet for My Pillow , whose experiences were featured in the HBO miniseries The Pacific , comes this vivid narrative of the astonishing six-month campaign for Guadalcanal. From the Japanese soldiers’ carefully calculated—and ...
11 de sept. de 2021 · Segment from HBO Miniseries "The Pacific"
Robert Leckie ( 18 de dezembro de 1920 – 24 de dezembro de 2001) foi um jornalista e escritor norte-americano de história militar dos Estados Unidos. Na juventude, ele serviu no Corpo de Fuzileiros e lutou em várias batalhas no Pacífico durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Suas experiências como atirador e batedor durante a Batalha de ...
