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Meet Author Frank Lavin

Local Authors' Week - Featured Event

Join Canton native and author Frank Lavin for a lively discussion of his new book, Home Front to Battlefront, An Ohio Teenager in World War II, followed by Q&A and book signing.

Local Authors Week Featured Event at the Canton Palace Theatre:

Join us for the book launch event of Home Front to Battle Front, An Ohio Teenager in World War II.  Frank Lavin will talk about the book, followed by Q&A and a book signing.

About Home Front to Battlefront:

Carl Lavin was a high school senior in Canton, Ohio, when Pearl Harbor was attacked. When he turned 18, he enlisted in the Army, a decision that would take him 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.

Frank Lavin is the son of Carl Lavin. Frank has served as a US ambassador, White House aide, banker, and trade negotiator. He currently works in business in China.