Robert Leckie - The Battle for Iwo Jima

ROBERT LECKIE was born in Philadelphia, the youngest in an Irish-Catholic family of eight children. Growing up in Rutherford, New Jersey, Robert Leckie got his first writing job covering football for the Bergen Evening Record in Hackensack. Upon hearing of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, Leckie joined the Marines and served nearly three years in the Pacific theater, winning eight battle stars, four Presidential Unit Citations, the Purple Heart, and the Naval Commendation Medal with Combat V. His wartime experiences formed the basis of his acclaimed first book, Helmet For My Pillow.

Following World War II, Leckie continued his journalistic career, writing for the Associated Press and the New York Daily News and serving as an editor for MGM newsreels. Leckie is also the author of March to Glory, The General and numerous other military history and historical fiction books. Robert Leckie died on December 24, 2001.

Helmet for My Pillow

The General

March to Glory

By Robert Leckie

Above & Beyond

By Charles Patrick Weiland

Guadalcanal: Starvation Island

By Eric Hammel

Marauder Man

By Kenneth T. Brown

A Gallant Company

By Jonathan F. Vance

Samurai!

By Saburo Sakai with Martin Caidin and Fred Saito

Zero

By Masatake Okumiya and Jiro Horikoshi with Martin Caidin

Fork-Tailed Devil: The P-38

The B-17: The Flying Forts

By Martin Caidin

Vietnam: A Reader

By the Editors of Vietnam magazine

Operation Vulture

By John Prados

Company Commander Vietnam

By James Estep

What They Didn’t Teach You About The Civil War

What They Didn’t Teach You About World War II

By Mike Wright

48 Hours to Hammelburg

By Charles Whiting

Black Devil Brigade

By Joseph A. Springer

Silence on Monte Sole

By Jack Olsen

Blue Skies and Blood

By Edwin P. Hoyt

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