Home front to battlefront
Subtitle: an Ohio teenager in World War II
By: Frank Lavin ; foreword by Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Series: War and society in North America
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780821422557
Subjects: Correspondence; United States; Military life; Anecdotes; Teenagers; Campaigns; United States. Army. Infantry Division, 84th; American Personal narratives; World War, 1939-1945; Social conditions; Soldiers; United States. Army; Jewish soldiers; Biography
Other titles: Ohio teenager in World War Two
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-371) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I; title: Before combat -- -- Part II; title: In the war -- -- Part III; title: After the war.