Description
From the library of Robert Leckie, the first American edition of The Business of War, the War Narrative of Major-General Sir John Kennedy.
Octavo, xviii, 370pp. Publisher’s blue-green cloth. With “first published” statement on the copyright page. Illustrated with maps, with map endpapers and index. Edited and with a preface by Bernard Fergusson. This memoir was first published in London by Hutchinson in 1957. In the publisher’s near fine dust jacket, $5.00 on the front flap, light sunning to the spine, a few short closed tears.
From the library of Robert Leckie, with this library stamp and blind stamp on the half title.
Robert Leckie (1920-2001) was a United States Marine and military historian. His war memoir, Helmet For My Pillow, was an autobiographical look at Private First Class Robert Leckie’s service in the United States Marine Corps during World War II. He was assigned to the Pacific theater, where he participated in the Guadalcanal Campaign, Battle of Peleliu and Okinawa invasion. Helmet for my Pillow and With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge, were the basis of the HBO miniseries, The Pacific. Robert Leckie died in 2001.
