About Fortitude and Erin Faith Allen
I work at the intersection of evidence and the human experience of war. My research restores the lived reality behind military records, field reports, battlefield maps, eyewitness testimony, civilian accounts and personal documents. The result is a form of wartime reconstruction that honors fact, context and the psychological truth carried by families, survivors and descendants.
My approach combines forensic precision, human depth, emotional intelligence, psychological truth, and archival rigor.
These principles guide every investigation, whether I am retrieving primary documents at the National Archives, analyzing operational movements, reconstructing the details of a wound received on the battlefield, restoring the story of a displaced civilian, or bringing clarity to a narrative that has been fragmented by time.
Over the past several years, my work has supported hundreds of families seeking clarity, answers, and restoration in the historical record. This has included multi-year WWII reconstructions, manuscript refinement for publication, family-commissioned wartime histories, battlefield mapping, German and U.S. archival sourcing, and documentary support - including the ability to read and translate Sütterlin and Kurrent, the handwritten scripts used in German records of the period.
I am currently completing One Day Over the Rhine, a full-scale reconstruction and book that documents the converging lives in Dinslaken, Germany in the final days of the war.
My research is sought by families, filmmakers, authors, museums, and large-scale historical initiatives that require precision, narrative coherence, and investigative persistence.