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Ella and farming wives like her are at the front of the line in this poster. Ella’s WWII fight for their place and wait for return of a trouble-cat husband is deeply impacted by a POW laborer…

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October 29, 2025 at 10:05 PM

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October 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM

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Ella had to change her life plans and commit to producing food from their farm for the WWII war effort, and for her family and workers –– but had to hide one special helper…

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October 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM

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Ella new her husband’s enlistment would leave her alone and lonely and challenged to keep their place going. She never dreamed the solution would emerge from a U-boat.

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October 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM

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Our heroine learned to do things she never expected, for the war and to save the farm. But when a stranger arrived to help, she experienced much more than she could have imagined.

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October 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM

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Ella had to give up some of her dreams to save her farm for the war effort. She could never have guessed it would mean a life-changing romance. But is it a long shot?

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October 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM

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What do you do when the enemy that your husband is fighting shows up to help you save the war on the farm front? And you're lonely and he looks like Val Kilmer in his best days…

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October 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM

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October 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM

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Ella didn’t expect to become master of her farm for the war effort. But she really couldn’t have guessed who she would come to depend on while awaiting her husband’s return…

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September 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM

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Ready for a different kind of war novel? With a struggle between loyalty and love on the home front? Can our heroine (a fallen woman?) hold family together amid temptation?

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September 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM

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Ella was part of revolution in work roles for women helping to win WWII, but few had a secret helper of the kind she had—creating a battle of the heart for her on the homefront.

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September 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM

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Ella’s husband knew only farming. When he returned from war to find Ella had expanded their operation with someone acting as the man of the farm now, the situation exploded.

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September 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM

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No one had prepared Ella to take over the farm, but now she was part of a movement in America and Britain that helped save the war — with the extra hand of her secret helper…

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August 30, 2025 at 7:46 PM

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ELLA’S WAR has won awards and recognition from numerous readers sites, including The Wishing Shelf, the Historical Novel Society, and Reader’s Favorite.

Now available in trade paperback, Kindle, and audiobook: see linktr.ee/rusty_allen_...

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August 28, 2025 at 10:11 PM

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Ella’s son, Reese, becomes our extra eye on the adult world around him, full of the unexpected: his mom as boss of the farm, a German POW worker/interloper, and a wounded GI father.

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August 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM

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Men’s work? Women’s work? Ella reached deep and found she could do it all, for her farm and the war effort but with some special help that she had to keep on the down-low, or else…

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August 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM

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Ella finds a new sense of pride, accomplishment, and identity through saving her farm for the U.S. WWII effort, but it comes with a secret that she must hide…and then decide.

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August 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM

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August 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM

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Little-known WWII history: the ravages of U-boats along America’s East Coast. Some 200 ships sunk. How can an officer from one of them face Ella and then offer his help?

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August 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM

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The Women’s Land Army that Ella becomes part of actually started in World War I, as this poster for a training school (at my alma mater!) shows. But Ella takes on some unexpected help…

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August 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM

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Temptations, challenges, restlessness abound for those left behind by their significant other during war. Ella’s sense of duty draws her into embracing the enemy…

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August 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM

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In this WWII range-finding tower that still stands to today in Fort Miles, Ella has an intense meeting with her Army lieutenant cousin to prevent removal of the German POW from her farm.

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July 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM

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To save their farm for the war, Ella accepts help from her least-preferred place. Then everything changes. Image: German POW work detail in Delaware.

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July 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM

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July 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM

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Ella faces a hard choice between heart and hearth, between daring and duty, when war descends on her life and a stranger crashes into her world.

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June 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM

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