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Robert Hugh Leckie (December 18, 1920 – December 24, 2001) was a United States Marine and an author of books about the military history of the United States, Catholic history and culture, sports books, fiction books, autobiographies, and children's books.
Helmet for My Pillow is the personal narrative written by World War II United States Marine Corps veteran, author, and military historian Robert Leckie.First published in 1957, the story begins with Leckie's enlisting in the United States Marines shortly after the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
He began to give poetry readings, in 1917. In 1918 he was a member of an official British propaganda mission to the USA, where he also gave readings. [ 1 ] One of his best known poems of the conflict is The Assault , which "evokes the destructive havoc and the emotional turbulence of an attack in verse of unusual freedom and energy" [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Robert Ernest Vernède (1875 – 9 April 1917) [1] was an English poet and writer, now remembered as a war poet. He was born in London, and educated at St Paul's School (where he was a friend of G. K. Chesterton and E. C. Bentley), and at St John's College, Oxford. After graduating, he wrote novels and short stories.
The Muse in Arms is an anthology of British war poetry published in November 1917 during World War I. It consists of 131 poems by 52 contributors, with the poems divided into fourteen thematic sections.
Siegfried Sassoon, a British war poet famous for his poetry written during the First World War. This is a partial list of authors known to have composed war poetry . Pre-1500
In his account of a 2003 combat deployment in Iraq, Soft Spots, Marine Sgt. Clint Van Winkle writes of such an incident: A car carrying two Iraqi men approached a Marine unit and a Marine opened fire, putting two bullet holes in the windshield and leaving the driver mortally wounded and his passenger torn open but alive, blood-drenched and ...
Selected Poetry of Robert W. Service (1874–1958) – Biography and four poems (The Cremation of Sam McGee, The Shooting of Dan McGrew, The Song of the Wage-Slave, The Telegraph Operator) Robert Service's war poetry; Mossback Minstrelsy: The British Columbia Verse of Robert W. Service; Entry at famouspoetsandpoems.com