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A Soldier of No Importance [ Band of Brothers ] 1 by Silmarilz1701
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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
Under The Banner ▪ Band Of Brothers by AdamantiumDragonfly
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Collaboration with @silmarilz1701 Svetlana knew how to play the game. She'd been caught in the political drama of Stalin's inner circle since birth. The only child of one of Stalin's closest friends, she grew up in the limelight, scrutinized by friend and foe. With the outbreak of the war, Sveta found a taste of freedom with the snipers. For Zhanna, her place in the military was the only thing she could be proud of, giving her a tie to the place she called home. With the grace of others looming over her head, Zhanna had only one chance to be more than the blood inside her veins and the prayer on her lips. But then the Nazis invaded the Motherland. Tasked with reaching the Allies by her father, Sveta once more found herself a political pawn. But she wouldn't go alone. Friend and comrade Zhanna joined her in their flight from Russia. But with the Eastern Front crumbling, the girls found themselves at the mercy of America for a way home. And that way home meant learning to jump with the Airborne. They were already soldiers. How hard could that be? For Zhanna, she may be able to embrace the company of those around her. But for Sveta, the daughter of a man who represented everything the Allies worked against in the Bolshevik Revolution, it may be too difficult. * * * * Title Inspiration: "Death to the German invaders! Long live our glorious Motherland, her liberty and her independence! Under the banner of Lenin, forward to victory!" - J. Stalin, Speech at the Red Army Parade, November 7, 1941 Cover by @swedeandspicy
The Rebellion's Ashes | Book One | End of an Empire by GeneralPretzel
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Born into a civil war that has torn her country apart for twenty years, Rowan Emerson fights to maintain the fragile peace that's kept the North American Empire from ruin. As the youngest Imperial General in history and the daughter of the Emperor, Rowan is hard pressed to stifle an unexpected rebel invasion before the conflict plunges the whole country into chaos. Joined by rival General and former friend, Damien Montague, Rowan is determined to bring the invasion to an end- and Sam Victor is determined to stop her. Sent as a spy within Empire lines, Sam fights heart and soul for the rebellion's cause, but the battle is always more than meets the eye. Steps haunted by danger from the beginning, his fellow spy, Chyanne Hawking uses all her wiles to avoid of suspicion. Caught in the middle of the clash, civilian Gwen Ash struggles just to keep herself and her family alive. As the Empire retaliates with crushing force, all begin to wonder if the invasion was doomed from the beginning. Will the spies save the Offensive from ruin? Can a single spark awaken the ashes of war? What's more, what will become of the friendship blossoming between Sam and the unwitting General? The stage is set, the pieces are in motion. Who is the real enemy? Is this the Empire's end? Or just the beginning? FORMERLY 'THE GENERAL'S FALL' Featured on @Wattpad-Military-Fiction's Modern Wars Reading List Ranked #1 in Government May 15th, 2018 and June 2nd-June 18th, 2018 Ranked #5 in General August 22nd, 2018 Ranked #325 in Action August 30th, 2018 Ranked #952 in Future December 16, 2019 Begun December 27, 2017 ~ Announced February 21, 2018 ~ Posted April 26, 2018 ~ Completed on December 20, 2019 ~ Completed on Wattpad on December 31, 2020
Athena Project [ M*A*S*H ] by Silmarilz1701
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A M*A*S*H FANFIC | Korean War Historical Fiction "The women of the medical profession were not called to the colors, but they decided to go anyway." - Esther Pohl Lovejoy, MD [ American Women's Hospitals Service ] - * - * - * - When Major Nellie O'Hara landed in the Republic of Korea, she didn't know exactly what to expect. Being one of five surgeons in a classified military experiment called the Athena Project, she only knew she'd face the discrimination of her gender. After all, in the States a woman surgeon was extremely rare; in the military it was unheard of. But with the war in its second full year and surgeons hard to come by, the military secretly allowed five women to enlist and serve in Tokyo, Seoul, and for Nellie, a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital near Uijeongbu. She used her time in Tokyo to read up on the 4077th. They were well known for their incredible 97.8% survival rate. But all the reports in the world couldn't prepare her for the antics, the personalities, the acceptance, and the tragedies of the 4077th. Friday March 21, 1952 Uijeongbu, Republic of Korea M*A*S*H* 4077th Best Care Anywhere - * - * - * - Warnings: Depictions to follow of: gun violence, death, severe panic, post-traumatic stress syndrome, graphic injuries, and mild alcoholism. Also mild use of strong language. - * - * - * - Awards: First place in The Robin's Awards, Second Place in the Ultimate Awards, Third Place in the Creativity Awards, Third Place in the Rainbow Awards Rankings: #1 in Dark Comedy, #1 in MASH - * - * - * - Author's Notes: The Athena Project is fictional. Women were only allowed to serve in Korea at MASH units as nurses. Fic begins in M*A*S*H Season 8, after episode Private Finance. As with all things M*A*S*H, the canon timeline is flexible. Hawkeye/OC slowburn. Features references to the Band of Brothers HBO series. Band of Brothers is based on a real company of paratrooper soldiers from WWII.