Included on Wattpad's HistoricalFiction World Wars reading list. - * - * - * - Being in the French Resistance wasn't what Alice Klein envisioned her life looking like. She'd wanted a husband and a flat in Paris, and maybe a cat with a pink bow who would sleep on her piano. But bullets didn't discriminate between male or female, young or old. Alice knew that better than most. As a half-German, half-French Jew, it seemed no matter where she went, she was hated. To the German army or Vichy France, she was a traitor. To any uneducated Allied soldier, her last name screamed Nazi. When the Maquis heard of the Allies looking for connections to the French Resistance, they'd quickly offered up Alice as a multilingual translator and Underground liaison. Whisked away from the French Alps, she arrived to the States to train as a paratrooper, knowing that failure was not an option no matter how much she disliked it. Lucky for her, she didn't just find barracks and training grounds in America. She found men, and in them, family to replace the one she'd lost. - * - WARNINGS for realistic depictions of world war ii, strong language, era-typical sexism, era-typical anti-semitism, alcohol abuse, cigarette abuse, past sexual assault - * - * - * - Pairing: mostly gen, way down the line it's eventual Lewis Nixon/OC BOOK ONE in [ A Tale of Two Heritages ] Start Date: December 5, 2019 End Date: March 24, 2020 Final Word Count: 150,786 Cross-posted to FFN and Ao3 - * - * - * - #1 in World War Two, #1 in Band of Brothers, #1 in Feminist, #1 in 1940s, #1 in Lewis Nixon FIRST PLACE: Cherry Blossom Awards 2020, Writer's Glory Awards 2020 THIRD PLACE: Historical Fiction in Spice Off Award, Fanfiction in Majestic Inc. Universal Awards

Malarkey rolls it carefully in his hands, with a touch so gentle as if he's afraid to break it, the corner of his mouth quirks up and suddenly his head is filled with memories; a lot of memories, all of them fighting with each other like they were waiting impatiently for him to touch the cross to come back to life. All of them so confusing, but he is so vivid it's like having him here in this very moment. But he's not.

⌗. DANSE MACABRE ! 📻 ━━ IN WHICH, All Carine Lively ever wanted to do was be a doctor but the universe has a new way of making her fight for it. ( band of brothers x fem! oc ) by rhebosomes 2024

"In times of war, you do what you must, become what you must. Some embrace it, some try to resist it, and others abuse it. I am guilty of all three." Virginia Carroll has been fighting her whole life, against herself and against what she is drawn to become. Burdened by her mother's scars and haunted by the shadows of a war gone by, Virginia, codenamed Eris, is pushed to the brink in Normandy risking life and discovery to gather intelligence. Her orders change and Virginia must embrace Eris fully to survive Europe. She can't afford to let her regrets and fears weigh her down as the Airborne falls to her rescue. She most certainly can't be distracted as she is recalled from the front and the real work begins. In times of war, you do what needs to be done and Virginia knows it all too well. But the longer she fights, she begins to wonder: at the end of the war, will she still be Virginia Carroll or will Eris, weighed by her mother's past, be all that's left? || Originally published as A Little Discord. This is the edited\revised version || Updates start on 02/14 Ranking: #1 in World War One (10/09/21) #2 in Female Spy (10/09/21) #7 in Liebgott (10/09/21)

━━━━ 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐄 [coming soon] marley chevalier, no matter how badly she wants to, has never been one to test the limits. with a compassionate heart at constant odds with expectations she's not sure she can meet, life for her has been a state of limbo. that is, until december 7th, 1941. the frangible way that she's lived her life is gone, replaced with two brothers being called for return to service and her small town turning upside down with fear and wartime rage. the new tenuous reality that is her home of houma, louisiana leads marley to a choice that will test every limit that's been placed before her; she enlists. before the war, enlistment for marley had meant steady jobs for her brothers and a war that had long since passed. now, it means concealing her name with the desperate hope that she can help in any way she knows how. and as fate would have it, history changes course when she is placed among the likes of men who, too, are to rewrite what it means to be a soldier for the united states. together, they are apart of easy company, 2nd battalion of the 506th parachute infantry regiment of the 101st airborne division. and with these men, marley realizes that to make it through the war, she has to embrace the fact that her once careful way of life will never be hers to live again. 𝘢 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 © 𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘺

he's just as it says on the tin!

hint: some blossom; some wither. maybe she thinks she deserves better than an american city slicker