"It seemed like a good idea at the time. It was a gamble - some you win, some you lose. We lost that one." - American Staff Sergeant and Glider Pilot Joe Kitchener on Operation Market-Garden.

The 101st had won in Normandy, according to the brass. However, the division's luck starts to run out during the fall 1944 invasion of Holland - and so does Georgia Fenley's.

August 30th, 1944. Aldbourne, England.

Summertime in Aldbourne was missing something. Everything was much the way the 506th had left it back in May, but it still didn’t seem quite right after nearly two months in combat. Georgia found herself drifting towards her old friend Marian Singer for comfort, rather than confiding in Lew and Dick. Because of this, she found herself striding towards a table in the back of a small pub.

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