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Christobel

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Reads 296
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Parts 17
Time 3h 32m

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Chris is a male nurse who's perhaps a bit too compassionate for his own good, living and working in Germany in 2015. One day he faces a huge moral decision. The choice he makes has  unintended, dramatic consequences that threaten to be his downfall.
    
    His namesake and great-great-grandmother Christobel was also a nurse, a comforting angel of care to soldiers during the dreadful cataclysmic times of 1915, and Chris finds himself in a dangerous situation that's similar to his ancestor's in some ways.
    
    Their stories are told in parallel (Christobel's through her journal) in this heart-rending but also heart-warming and inspiring novel.All Rights Reserved

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Daughter of England by cradle_life

Caroline Winther has everything a girl in Victorian England can wish for. A kind, caring family, plenty of money, a respected name, and a loving fiancee. Her life takes a drastic change, however, with the start of the Crimean war. Carol finds her plans to join Florence Nightingale's team of nurses roadblocked by her loved ones. A military hospital is no place for a girl of Carol's status and position in society. But Carol's family underestimate her, and when threatened she breaks with them and sets sail for Turkey, hardly prepared for what is to greet her when the ship docks. Does Carol have what it takes to cope with the hardships and prejudice she must face as a female military nurse? And will she be able to regain the respect and love of her family? Daughter of England is a story of courage and love set against a historical background. Through the eyes of fictional characters you can meet one of history's greatest heroines and embark on a journey with the early pioneers of nursing as we know it today.

I, Deutschland by XXsn0wst0rmXX

(ART IS NOT MINE!) After my biological father died, I was left all alone... My sister was taken from me and I was left with the most difficult decision I had ever faced: through all of my tears, I had to choose a Westerner to take me in, and I was immediately thrusted into a new life, a life like nothing I'd ever experienced before. I felt lost and lonely, yet oddly content. My emotions were complicated, too complicated for a relatively young child, yet I didn't have a choice. I had to overcome everything and lead my people back from the clutches of evil. Hallo, I'm Deutschland. This is my story.

𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧。𝙳𝚞𝚗𝚔𝚒𝚛𝚔 (✔) by laurielaurense

━━ ❝𝙳𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝙰𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝙸𝚝.❞ -"Hey, it's ok! I won't hurt you! I'll keep you safe! I promise!" In Which a Boy Promises a Girl that he will protect her. Or In Which a Boy Becomes a Girls Safe Haven. Evelyn Hews is a British nurse stuck on French soil. Every time soldiers and officers try to leave Dunkirk, their boats are bombed on by the German Air Force. Will Evelyn and her new mates ever escape the trap they've been put into? *DISCLAIMER* I do not own any of the characters, plots, storylines, they all belong to Christopher Nolan. I only own Evelyn. Although I did do some editing on some of it, I did stay true to the story. Ranked: #1 in boats 4/6/19 Ranked: #1 in fionnwhitehead 6/17/19 Started: 2/24/19 Finished: 4/14/20 ･｡ﾟ☆: *. ☆彡ﾟ. ©laurielaurense

Entangled Hearts by Cal1018

Forbidden love, stolen letters and a war. While it seems as if the world is trying to keep this couple apart, they will prove love is stronger than any trial. Laura Mae knows her heart but she knows her father's heart too. While her plans include the orphan boy Eugene Whitmer, a choice could not be more forbidden in her father's eyes. Instead, he suggests the hardworking farm boy, Philip Dreyer. When war threatens everything Laura Mae knows, she must make a decision as to who would be harder to lose, her family or the love of her life.

Yours Truly by fairyraine

[Copyright © 2014] In 1943, Charlotte Truly is a nineteen-year-old American nurse serving in World War II. The oldest of four daughters, Charlotte is mostly a shy and reserved girl who keeps to herself. But when Charlotte meets William McCaden, an injured soldier on leave whom she'd briefly met when she was seventeen, she finds herself falling inexplicably in love. When Will is shipped overseas to Nazi-occupied France to fight in a deadly combat mission, Charlotte and Will have only their letters to keep each other close... but in the midst of war, how can love possibly survive? ----- DISCLAIMER: This work was written when I, Raine the author, was 14 years old (circa 2014) and is a FIRST DRAFT. Certain aspects of this story are highly problematic and should rightfully be called out. Please do bear in mind, however, that the entirety of what you see here was written (unedited) by a 14-year-old girl. Now, I as a 20-year-old writing student am fully aware of my mistakes and would like to apologize profusely for them. They are not reflective of my present character by any means and I can assure you that I FULLY condemn the slut-shaming, misogyny, white saviorism, racism, and the general oversimplification of vastly complex themes and historical contexts you might see in Yours Truly (2014). As much as I would like to chalk it all up to being a sign of the times (the very backwards 1940s), I understand now how I should have handled this particular time period with more tact and discretion. Especially with how I recklessly portrayed the horrific racial climate of the 1940s American South. Again, I am very sorry and can wholeheartedly promise you that any later drafts of Yours Truly would 100% rework all of these themes and contexts with the utmost of consideration towards the communities they affect directly. Thank you. -Raine, Feb. 11/2021

After War Is Over by RageAgainstMyMachine

It's 1917. You are a medic in the war, crawling through no man's land to save your fellow soldiers. You are captured during you rendezvous by a German field medic -- a dark haired man who's pointing a Mauser at you and bleeding out. You must save him, you have no choice. You commit treachery -- you fall in love with him, even when you don't speak the same language. - There is a lot of German in the fic, and I do NOT expect you to understand any of it. That's the point, the reader canonically cannot understand German. You aren't expected to translate everything (but you can if you want to, I might have slipped in a few jokes.) Tactically translated German (Aka Maxis translating) is in bolded sentences.

Convalescent by AugustLikeTheMonth

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Stuck in HISTORY | Book 1| ❤(Countryhumans )❤ by HappySoup156

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Wildflowers In The Ruins: A 1917 Story by Snowdropsdream

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Caroline Winther has everything a girl in Victorian England can wish for. A kind, caring family, plenty of money, a respected name, and a loving fiancee. Her life takes a drastic change, however, with the start of the Crimean war. Carol finds her plans to join Florence Nightingale's team of nurses roadblocked by her loved ones. A military hospital is no place for a girl of Carol's status and position in society. But Carol's family underestimate her, and when threatened she breaks with them and sets sail for Turkey, hardly prepared for what is to greet her when the ship docks. Does Carol have what it takes to cope with the hardships and prejudice she must face as a female military nurse? And will she be able to regain the respect and love of her family? Daughter of England is a story of courage and love set against a historical background. Through the eyes of fictional characters you can meet one of history's greatest heroines and embark on a journey with the early pioneers of nursing as we know it today.