World War II AUs

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

I'm looking for WWII AUs, set in Europe or the UK, by *non-USan* fan writers. WWI AUs would do, too, but I know of ... none? maybe? ... offhand. For extra credit, is there a WWII AU where John is a pilot on the Burma Hump route? Because you *know* he'd go for it like a shot.

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[viva-gloria.livejournal.com]

oooh! *basks* I'm very glad you liked ...

Am not old enough to have personal experience of the war per se, but both my parents lived through it and my mother told me stories of what it was like. Plus, as cathalin says below, that sense of living in a landscape that still bore the marks of war. There are pillboxes -- little concrete mini-bunkers -- all over the east coast; the wartime radio mast in the village was demolished when I was about 7; for a long time the village hall was an old Nissen hut, left over from the war (which had been over for 30 years by then, but it is, or was, a relatively poor part of the country, so why get rid of something useful?)

Plus even now it's commonplace to see plaques commemorating wartime tragedies, or to walk past a wall that's scarred with bomb damage, or to see where iron railings were removed to be melted down and made into weaponry.

And sea-mines from the war occasionally wash up on the beaches. And there are visible shipwrecks ...

Y'know, I hadn't thought of it like that, the thing about living in a landscape changed by war. But now you mention it: yes.

[skaredykat.livejournal.com]

Neat info, thanks. I didn't comment on liminal when I originally read it, but I remember the story striking me as very textured, a lot of depth hidden in the backgrounds and backstories.