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Home Front to Battlefront - An Ohio Teenager in World War II (Hardcover)
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Home Front to Battlefront - An Ohio Teenager in World War II (Hardcover)
Series: War and Society in North America
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Carl Lavin was a high school senior in Canton, Ohio, when Pearl
Harbor was attacked. The Canton, Ohio, native was eighteen when he
enlisted, 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. Home
Front to Battlefront contributes the rich details of one soldier's
experience to the broader literature on World War II. Lavin's
adventures, in turn disarming and sobering, will appeal to general
readers, veterans, educators, and students of the war. As a
history, the book offers insight into the wartime career of a
Jewish Ohioan in the military, from enlistment to training through
overseas deployment. As a biography, it reflects the emotions and
the role of the individual in a total war effort that is all too
often thought of as a machine war in which human soldiers were
merely interchangeable cogs.
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