Thomas Christian
Fallen: A WWII Love Story
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He fell from the sky. She fell for the enemy. October 2007, Frankenmuth, Michigan. An honor guard folds the flag over Will Reinhart, a quiet small-town radio repairman who never talked about the war. That night, at the family supper, his late wife's twin brother stands up. Friedrich Brugger is eighty-two. In his hands is a torn scrap of parachute silk, and he has decided the grandchildren are finally going to hear the story nobody in the family ever told. February 1945. Flak cripples the B-17 Second Wind over Munich. Twenty-three-year-old radio operator Will Reinhart bails out over the Allgäu, high in the Bavarian Alps, and comes down hard in the snow with a torn parachute and a broken ankle. He crawls into a lonely hay barn above a mountain village that American bombs struck only days before. The girl who finds him is nineteen. Her name is Lena. She knows what happens to enemy flyers, and she knows what could happen to her family if she hides one. Fallen is a sweeping, historically grounded story of courage, faith, family and first love in the last months of the war, told across two timelines by the only man left who can tell it. New chapter every other day. Written by Thomas Christian. Narrated by an AI-generated voice.
Thomas Christian
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