Robert Leckie

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born

December 18, 1920 in Philadelphia, The United States

died

December 24, 2001

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Nonfiction, History

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Leckie was born on December 18, 1920, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He grew up in Rutherford, New Jersey. He began his career as a writer in high school, as a sports writer for ''The Bergen Evening Record'' in Hackensack, New Jersey.

On January 18, 1942, Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps.He served in combat in the Pacific theater, as a scout and a machine gunner in H Company, 2nd Battalion 1st Marines Regiment 1st Marine Division (United States). Leckie saw combat in the Battle of Guadalcanal, the Battle of Cape Gloucester, and had been wounded by blast concussion in the Battle of Peleliu. He returned to the United States in March 1945 and was honorably discharged shortly thereafter.

Following World War II, Leckie worked as a...more

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Average rating: 3.99 · 2,165 ratings · 242 reviews · 31 distinct works

	Helmet For My Pillow (Military History (Ibooks)) 4.00 avg rating — 1,622 ratings — published 1972 — 21 editions	My rating:
	George Washington's War: The Saga of the American Revolution 4.12 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II 3.65 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines Against Japan 4.22 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1962 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Delivered from Evil: The Saga of World War II 4.16 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Battle for Iwo Jima 3.78 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1967 — 4 editions	My rating:
	None Died in Vain: The Saga of the American Civil War 3.94 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	My rating:
	From Sea to Shining Sea: From the War of 1812 to the Mexican War; The Saga of America's Expansion 4.00 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Wars Of America 3.79 avg rating — 24 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Challenge for the Pacific: Guadalcanal: The Turning Point of the War 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1999 — 5 editions	My rating:

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“I stood among the heaps of dead. They lay crumpled, useless, defunct. The vital force was fled. A bullet or a mortar fragment had torn a hole in these frail vessels and the substance had leaked out. The mystery of the universe had once inhabited these lolling lumps, had given each an identity, a way of walking, perhaps a social habit of address or a way with words or a knack of putting color on canvas. They had been so different, then. Now they were nothing, heaps of nothing. Can a bullet or a mortar fragment do this? Does this force, this mystery, I mean this soul--does this spill out on the ground along with the blood? No. It is somewhere, I know it.”
― Robert Leckie

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