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Author Lavin, Franklin L., author

Title Home front to battlefront : an Ohio teenager in World War II / Frank Lavin ; foreword by Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Published Athens : Ohio University Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 378 pages)
Series War and society in North America
War and society in North America (Athens, Ohio)
Summary "Carl Lavin was a high school senior in Canton, Ohio, when Pearl Harbor was attacked. In his freshman year of college, he joined the reserves, a decision that would take him with the US Army from training across the United States and Britain to combat with the 84th Infantry Division in the Battle of the Bulge. Home Front to Battlefront is the tale of a foot soldier who finds himself thrust into a world where he and his unit grapple with the horrors of combat, the idiocies of bureaucracy, and the oddities of life back home--all in the same day. The book is based on Carl's personal letters, his recollections and those of the people he served beside, official military history, private papers, and more."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Lavin, Carl, 1924-2014.
United States. Army. Infantry Division, 84th -- Biography
United States. Army -- Military life -- Anecdotes
SUBJECT United States. Army fast
United States. Army. Infantry Division, 84th fast
Subject Soldiers -- United States -- Correspondence
Jewish soldiers -- United States -- Correspondence
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
Teenagers -- Ohio -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Letters.
Armed Forces -- Military life
Jewish soldiers
Military campaigns
Social conditions
Soldiers
Teenagers
SUBJECT Germany -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Anecdotes
Canton (Ohio) -- Biography
Subject Germany
Ohio
Ohio -- Canton
United States
Genre/Form Personal narratives
Anecdotes
Biographies
Personal narratives
Personal correspondence
Biographies.
Personal narratives.
Biographies.
Récits personnels.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780821445921
0821445928
Other Titles Ohio teenager in World War II