Title: Helmet for my pillow.
Description: The book is a personal memoir of a soldier's experience during WW#2 in the war in the Pacific. It forms the basis for Hugh Ambrose book The Pacific which became the TV Mini-Series The Pacific produced by Ken Burns.
Subjects: Personal narratives, World War, 1939-1945
Places: Western Pacific Islands culminating in the taking of Okinawa. The island hopping war ended with the dropping of the hydrogen bombs on Japan.
Time periods: 1942-45