The Girl in the Blue Beret Lib/E (Audiobook)

from 4fish

Retired airline pilot Marshall Stone revisits his past as a World War II aviator shot down in France. A little slow to develop, but ultimately a rewarding read on the limits of memory, the futility of regret and the emergence from grief.

from robson663

An intriguing use of family history as the basis for a novel, and very interesting in its perspective on the French resistance movement. I enjoyed reading it and found it useful as a book to read in small sections before bed: sufficiently compelling without demanding that I continue. It's difficu...

from SteveLindahl

The Girl in the Blue Beret by Bobbie Ann Mason is the story of a World War II vet who returns to France to find the people who helped him when his plane was shot down. It's the story of an aspect of the French resistance I knew little about prior to reading this book. I found it interesting that ...

from DeaconBernie

As the pages grew to be few, I was speculating how it might end. Surprisingly, it didn't end; it just stopped. It is well researched and cleverly told, and I will read more by this author. It also puts flesh and bones to a story about which we know little.

from agjuba

I had a vested interest in this book, since my husband's grandfather (like the main character in the book) was a B-17 pilot based at Molesworth who was shot down. Although the familial similarities ended there, I still enjoyed the book a great deal. Marshall Stone, the main character, returns to ...