BOOK ONE: NORMANDY - The German and the Jew

France, 1944. As the Allies land on the shores of Normandy, an unlikely friendship strikes up between Levi Ackerman, a widowed French Jew, and Eren Jäger, a deeply-in-the-closet lieutenant in the German Wehrmacht. The two deal with love, loss, dignity, and the horrors all around them.

This multi-novel story stays faithful to the real history of World War II, covering from just before the Normandy Landing, the Battle of Metz, and the Ardennes Offensive (AKA, the Battle of the Bulge).