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Timeline

1936

March 7: Hitler invades the Rhineland. Shortly after, Marie-Madeline meets Navarre at a party.

1939

September 1: Germany invades Poland.

September 3: Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. The Phoney War, a period of little military action by either side, follows.

1940

May 10: Germany attacks the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, which all quickly fall to the Nazis.

May 13–14: The Germans enter France.

June 12: Marie-Madeleine leaves Paris, joining the exodus of people traveling to safety.

June 14: The French army abandons Paris and the Nazis occupy the city.

June 22: The armistice is signed. France is divided into a free zone in the south, governed from Vichy, and an Occupied Zone in the north, ruled by the Nazis.

1941

February: Marie-Madeline meets Léon Faye in Vichy for the first time. He agrees to head the North African arm of the network.

June 22: The Germans invade Russia, their former ally.

October 15: Navarre and Léon Faye sentenced for their roles in the failed coup in Algiers; Navarre for two years, Léon for five months.

December 7: Japanese attack Pearl Harbor; the United States officially enters the war.

1942

February: Marie-Madeleine makes Léon Faye her chief of staff after his release from prison.

August: Alliance lands the first moonlight Lysander flight from MI6.

November 7: The police burst into La Pinède headquarters and arrest Marie-Madeleine, Léon, Monique, and several more agents.

November 8: The Allies land in North Africa.

November 11: Marie-Madeleine and her agents escape prison with the help of the French police. Léon remains in prison in Castres.

November 23: Léon escapes from Castres prison.

December 25: Alliance celebrates having grown to almost one thousand agents.

1943

January 13: MI6 want Marie-Madeleine to go to London for her safety. She sends Léon instead.

January 14: Marie-Madeleine leaves Chateau Malfonds moments before the Nazis arrive.

March: Léon returns from London in his hunchback disguise. Marie-Madeleine arranges for her children to cross the border to Switzerland, but their guides refuse to take them all the way, so they make the crossing alone.

June: Marie-Madeleine gives birth to her son.

July 10: The Allies invade Sicily.

July 18: Marie-Madeleine flies to London. She meets MI6’s Dansey and becomes worried about whether he really has Alliance’s best interests at heart.

August 15: Magpie and Léon arrive, bringing with them Amniarix’s reports on the V1 rocket.

September 15: After one failed flight, Léon and Magpie return to France.

September 18: Marie-Madeleine receives a transmission advising that the passengers on Léon’s flight were all arrested, and that seven other sectors have fallen to the Nazis.

November 24: Léon escapes to the roof of 84 Avenue Foch. After only a few hours of freedom, Léon is rearrested and sent to Bruschal Fortress, Germany.

1944

March 16: Alliance agent Dragon arrives in London with a fifty-five-foot-long map of the Normandy beaches.

April: Marie-Madeleine strikes a deal with De Gaulle’s Free French to make Alliance a part of their intelligence service.

June 6: D-Day; Allied forces land in Normandy and begin pushing back German forces.

July 5: Marie-Madeleine finally returns to France.

July 17: The Germans burst into Marie-Madeleine’s apartment in Aix-en-Provence. She’s imprisoned in a military barracks but manages to escape by squeezing out the window.

August 25: Paris is liberated by the Allies.

September: Marie-Madeleine is awarded the Order of the British Empire and reunited with her children.

September–December: The Allied advance slows because of supply issues. The Germans regroup.

1945

January 15: Magpie is freed following an exchange of prisoners.

January 27: Berlin radio announces that the Germans are prepared to exchange Léon Faye for a Nazi prisoner held in Paris. De Gaulle declines.

January 30: Léon Faye is shot by the Nazis. His body is burned by flamethrowers.

May 8: Victory in Europe Day. WWII in Europe comes to an end. Marie-Madeleine and Magpie set off into Germany to learn the fates of their missing agents.

August: Two atomic bombs are dropped on Japan and Japan surrenders. WWII is over.

November 30: A requiem mass is held at Sacré-Coeur Basilica in Paris to honor the dead and vanished members of Alliance.