Description: Further DetailsTitle: Home Front to BattlefrontCondition: NewSubtitle: An Ohio Teenager in World War IIEAN: 9780821422557ISBN: 9780821422557Publisher: Ohio University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 01/15/2017Description: Carl Lavin was a high school senior 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Frank LavinGenre: HistoryBook Series: War and Society in North AmericaISBN-10: 0821422553Topic: Military History, BiographyRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Home Front to Battlefront
Title: Home Front to Battlefront
Subtitle: An Ohio Teenager in World War II
EAN: 9780821422557
ISBN: 9780821422557
Release Date: 01/15/2017
Release Year: 2017
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: War and Society in North America
ISBN-10: 0821422553
Book Title: Home Front to Battlefront : an Ohio Teenager in World War II
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Item Height: 1.4 in
Topic: Military / World War II, Letters, Sociology / General, Military / General, Military / United States, Jewish
Publication Year: 2017
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, Literary Collections, History
Item Weight: 28.3 Oz
Item Length: 9.1 in
Author: Frank Lavin
Book Series: War and Society in North America Ser.
Item Width: 6.6 in
Format: Hardcover
