A Tale of Two Heritages
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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 translator and liaison. Whisked away from the French Alps, she arrived in 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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- Part 1 of A Tale of Two Heritages
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War never changes, but who you fight alongside does.
In 1942, Alice Klein left the French Maquis to assist America's paratrooper corps. She lost everything to the Nazis when she left: her family, her country, and her friends. But she gained Easy Company.
Alice and the rest of Easy Company have been through six long months of combat already. They've seen friends die. But they're about to enter the toughest months yet. December in Bastogne brings trench foot, artillery barrages, and snipers. It brings frostbite and stupid mistakes. And above all, D-Day + 193 brings death.
As the war drags on, Alice must face hard truths about what it means to be a German Jew. Events from 1942 come to light which force her to rethink everything she knew about her family's fate. As it turned out, Germans were the first victims of the Nazi party.
Thankfully, Alice doesn't have to face it alone. While some faces disappear forever, others become closer than she could have ever imagined. Because though war never changes, who you fight it with does.
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- Part 2 of A Tale of Two Heritages
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One year since Bastogne. One year since Alice lost half of everyone she'd come to care about in Easy. One year since she'd battled against pneumonia as much as she'd battled against the Germans. Only now, she was home.
No foxholes, no artillery barrages, no tree bursts. Just Alice and Nix and the mansion they'd been given by his mother. But they're both getting restless. Harry and Kitty's wedding is on the horizon, and with that, an excuse to travel.
But even with no foxholes, no artillery barrages, and no tree bursts keeping them up at night, they hadn't come home unscathed. No one had. Everyone who went to war was a victim.
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- Part 3 of A Tale of Two Heritages
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Everyone is fighting a war. Their mom and dad fought the Nazis as Lieutenant Klein and Captain Nixon. Uncle Ron fought the Nazis and the North Koreans. Now it's their turn. Ettie fights the war in the mind, trying to figure out what makes the brain go from happy to sad and happy again. Noë fights the war against the war, sure that if everyone just sat down and saw the beauty in the world, the Wars would stop. Both thought the other a little crazy. But both had their own brand of wisdom.
Companion to the Tale of Two Heritages Band of Brothers fanfics. One-Shots of the Nixon girls in the 1960s and 1970s. Featuring the children of Easy Company.
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- Part 4 of A Tale of Two Heritages
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With Talbert skewered and mud absolutely everywhere, Alice is fed up. Turns out, Liebgott's fed up too, but he's more angry about the German choir on the other side of the field.
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- Part 5 of A Tale of Two Heritages
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Bastogne sucks. But Bill is going to use his misery as an excuse to make poor decisions and increase his bet with George over when Alice and Nixon will finally become a thing. Unfortunately, Harry's near by.
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- Part 6 of A Tale of Two Heritages
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Nothing good could come from acting on his feelings for Alice. He knew it. Dick knew it. They all knew it. So why had he come to Paris? Curiosity.
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- Part 7 of A Tale of Two Heritages
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They Understood, but Did Not Comprehend by silmarilz1701
Fandoms: Band of Brothers (TV 2001)
06 Jun 2020
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"Men died every day. They knew this. They understood it. Bullets didn’t discriminate in war. They didn’t avoid the young men, and they didn’t avoid the old ones. So why had they assumed the bullets would avoid Alice?"
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- Part 8 of A Tale of Two Heritages
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“Helluva day. Did not expect to find George Luz at my door tonight, I’ll tell you that.”
Deleted scene for Humanity of the Broken, Chapter 47.
What happened after George stopped Alice.Series
- Part 9 of A Tale of Two Heritages
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Alice is confused about how to see herself after Kaufering IV. Is she German? or Jewish? or both. Shifty plays babysitter.
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- Part 10 of A Tale of Two Heritages
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After Bastogne, after Haguenau, the paratroopers got much-needed rest. But a few of them find small things bring back bad memories, like the scent of rose soap, or an early spring storm.
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- Part 11 of A Tale of Two Heritages
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"She remembered there being a party. Fourth of July, maybe? Was it July? Oh god."
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- Part 12 of A Tale of Two Heritages
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"How had she gotten here? Sitting in a foxhole, George dead asleep on her side and beyond him, Lipton, had never been the future she’d envisioned. She’d wanted a husband, a piano, maybe a small white cat with a pink bow to sit on the piano as she played for her kids."
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- Part 13 of A Tale of Two Heritages
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“Nix. The sun, the water, the warm stones. I’m not here to be a Yiddish dictionary.”
“Come on. It’s five letters. Starts with V.”Series
- Part 14 of A Tale of Two Heritages
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After the solitude of a shower, some of the men want to know why Alice doesn't sing anymore. Three-year-old Percy convinces her to try again.
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- Part 15 of A Tale of Two Heritages
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“You know it’s been a long time since any of the guys thought of you as a Nazi. Right?”
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- Part 16 of A Tale of Two Heritages
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"It was nice, seeing her smile. Too few people in Paris smiled those days. Between the strict curfews and rationing, the unrest, and the fear of every neighbor, frowns and glares made up the majority of the population's expressions. Marc hated it. So he refused to give in."
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- Part 17 of A Tale of Two Heritages
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"The moment he’d spoken French, however mutilated it sounded because of his American accent, she’d smiled. And she hadn’t stopped smiling since."
Tumblr prompt: "Do you ever stop talking?” + Marc Lives AU + Lewis Nixon
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- Part 18 of A Tale of Two Heritages
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"She had hoped it would reassure them, the strength of her words and the knowledge that the best medic in the 101st would be taking care of their friend. But their faces fell."
Alice tries to pick up the pieces when Harry comes back from Moose's accident. She uses stolen Vat 69 to do so, knowing full well that Nixon can't get mad at her.
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- Part 19 of A Tale of Two Heritages
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"There was only one thing to do. They had to steal the dartboard."
Or, an offhand comment about needing a dartboard leads to an ill-fated game of What are the Odds.
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- Part 20 of A Tale of Two Heritages