A Soldier of No Importance [ Band of Brothers ] 1

Included on Wattpad's HistoricalFiction World Wars reading list.

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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.

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WARNINGS for realistic depictions of world war ii, strong language, era-typical sexism, era-typical anti-semitism, alcohol abuse, cigarette abuse, past sexual assault

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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

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#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