Robert Leckie

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Illinois

From Parris Island to the Pacific

A soldier presents an account of his participation in World War II, from basic training to battles on Guadalcanal, New Britain, and Peleliu, reflecting on the horrors and sacrifices of war.

Helmet for My Pillow

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Missouri

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Alabama

The United States Marines Against Japan

Strong Men Armed relates the U.S. Marines' unprecedented, relentless drive across the Pacific during World War II, from Guadalcanal to Okinawa, detailing their struggle to dislodge from heavily fortified islands an entrenched enemy who had vowed to fight to extinction -- and did. (All but three of the Marines' victories required the complete annihilation of the Japanese defending force.) As scout and machine-gunner for the First Marine Division, the author fought in all its engagements till his wounding at Peleliu. Here he uses firsthand experience and impeccable research to re-create the nightmarish battles. The result is both an exciting chronicle and a moving tribute to the thousands of men who died in reeking jungles and on palm-studded beaches, thousands of miles from home and fifty years before their time, of whom Admiral Chester W. Nimitz once said, "Uncommon valor was a common virtue."Strong Men Armed includes over a dozen maps, a chronology of the war in the Pacific, the Marine Medal of Honor Winners in World War II, and Marine Corps aces in World War II.

Strong Men Armed

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Colorado

New York

Guadalcanal: the Turning Point of the War

Guadalcanal- The Turning Point of the War


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 ultimately foiled-attempt to build a series of impregnable island forts on the ground to the tireless efforts of the Americans who struggled against a tenacious adversary and the temperature and terrain of the island itself, Robert Leckie captures the loneliness, the agony, and the heat of twenty-four-hour-a-day fighting on Guadalcanal. Combatants from both sides are brought to life- General Archer Vandegrift, who first assembled an amphibious strike force; Isoroku Yamamoto, the naval general whose innovative strategy was tested; the island-born Allied scout Jacob Vouza, who survived hideous torture to uncover the enemy's plans; and Saburo Sakai, the ace flier who shot down American planes with astonishing ease.

Propelling the Allies to eventual victory, Guadalcanal was truly the turning point of the war. Challenge for the Pacificis an unparalleled, authoritative account of this great fight that foreverchanged our world.

Challenge for the Pacific

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South Dakota

Clean print no moisture exposure little shelf wear never read

Texas

Challenge for the Pacific  1

Book is in great condition.  I read it and underlined things and made notes in it though. Sorry

South Carolina

Oklahoma

Ohio

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Pennsylvania

The Saga of World War II: The First Complete History

This political and military history of World War II traces the global conflict from its origins in the 1920s and 1930s to Japan's final surrender in 1945

Delivered from Evil

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Utah

The Saga of the American Revolution

An exciting trip back in time to the American Revolution, "a reminder of what history can be when written by a master."--Publishers Weekly

George Washington's War

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Retired school library book. Previous owner’s information is blackened out on the inside of the front and back covers. Interior pages are in good condition. Jacket has a lot of wear and tear. There once a library sticker on the hardcover and there’s a slight residue where it once laid.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

North Carolina

The Stoey of the American Revolution 

The World Turned Upside Down

This book was the basis for the HBO show The Pacific. It is Robert Leckie’s account of his time in the Pacific theater during WWII. A fascinating story. The book is oversized in that it is about 8.5x11 but is very thin. 

Virginia

Helmet For My Pillow

Florida

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Wars of American Vol. 1 & 2

The book itself is like new. The dust cover has minor shelf ware as seen in photos. 

Helmet For My Pillow 

From Pearl Harbor to D-Day and beyond and all-star examination of the conflict that shaped the modern world from World War II Magazine. It was a war that defined a generation of the world, a war that saw America transform itself from an inward-looking isolationist nation to an arsenal of democracy whose reach spanned the globe. The World War II Reader presents in one extraordinary book the thrilling story of the greatest generation in its finest hour in the best essays from the world's most distinguished historians compiled by World War II Magazine, the only magazine that brings the history and drama of the 20th Century's defing conflict to life. The World War II Reader includes insightful essays on the larger-than-life leaders who made life-and-death decisions that shaped grand strategy and crucial battles. In addition, this book cuts through the fog of war and presents though-provoking revelations of little known events that had far-reaching consequences, including the Niihau Incident, that tragically affected the fate of Japanese-Americans in Hawaii and mainland America. The World War II Reader is a must-have for every history enthusiast, and for the person serching for the one book that not just tells the story of America's greatest conflict, but makes World War II come vividly alive as if it happened yesterday.

The World War II Reader   93

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No Dust cover intact Little shelf wear no moisture exposure clean print

With Fire and Sword 30

A Comprehensive Narrative of All of America's Conflicts from Champlain's First Campaign Against the Iroquois Through the Allied Coalition's Victory in the Persian Gulf

The Wars of America is a dramatic and compelling narrative history by an outstanding military historian of America's armed conflicts and the political, cultural and economic factors behind them since the earliest explorers and settlers arrived on this continent. First published in 1968, It was revised and updated in 1981 to include the Vietnam War. It has now been updated to include all the events of the last ten years in Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, and the victory over Iraq in the Persian Gulf by United Nations forces under the command of General Norman Schwarzkopf. A final chapter analyzes the self-destruction of the European communist world in the summer and fall of 1991, including the collapse of the hard-line Soviet government and the upheavals in Yugoslavia, and speculates on the meaning of these developments on America's future. Leckie not only stresses those personal aspects of war that make it the most intense and contradictory of our experiences. In the new chapters he shows how, while operating in a quintessentially American tradition, our military and political leaders applied the tragic lessons learned in the war in Southeast Asia against North Vietnam by changing from a conscripted to a volunteer army, thus leading the way to better training methods, higher morale, and far better performance on the battlefield. Combining dramatic narrative with sound reference material, The Wars of America is essential for anyone who wishes to understand America at war.

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