The Girl in the Blue Beret
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Fred Sullivan
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By:
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Bobbie Ann Mason
About this listen
Inspired by a true story, the best-selling author of In Country offers a gorgeous, haunting novel about an airline pilot coming to terms with his past, and searching for the people who saved him during World War II. After Marshall Stone's B-17 bomber was shot down in occupied Europe in 1944, people in the French Resistance helped him escape to safety. One of the brave French people who risked their lives for him was a lively girl in Paris—a girl identified by her blue beret. After the war Marshall returned to America, raised a family, and became a successful airline pilot. He tried to forget the war. Now, in 1980, he returns to France and finds himself drawn back in time—memories of the crash, the terror of being alone in a foreign country where German soldiers were hunting down fallen Allied aviators, the long months of hiding. Marshall finds the people who helped him escape from the Nazis and falls in love with the woman who was the girl in the blue beret. He also discovers astonishing revelations about the suffering of the people he had known during the war. Bobbie Ann Mason's novel, inspired by her father-in-law's wartime experiences, is a beautifully woven story of love, war, and second chances.
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- SAgirl
- 20-01-23
A good story
I thoroughly enjoyed this story. Every person we pass on the street has a story. If we would only take time to listen to them. it stirs in one's own heart memories of long ago. narration was good, story line interesting, characters from all walks of life. I recommend this book.
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- Rachel O'Neill
- 22-04-23
Drama, humanity and a good read
A really good read, full of drama and a well paced, compassionate exploration of the horrific reality of war. Not preachy, and with its likeable characters and breadth of history and location, It gives us a genuine sense of the second world war in Europe that is fast being forgotten, and its effect on a generation.
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- Ms. Jenny Briton
- 22-03-23
Started well but meh
Good concept, got quite into it at first. Narration was weird about French/English vowel sounds and the story got a bit flat half way through
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- Bev Moth
- 30-09-23
Interesting at the start…
The first few chapters were interesting but then it tailed off and was really hard going and I completely lost the thread and interest in the story.
Nicely read though but can’t recommend.
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- C
- 24-07-23
Insultingly bad, especially the reader
This is awful, just awful. It does represent the American views of World War II in Europe and of "the French" in that it is a nonstop series of received ideas, stereotypes and clichés. But even though based on a real woman, etc., Mason just "couldn't resist" inventing a romance between characters she researched. Worse than a TV movie… and all the more since the reader here is abysmal at grappling with French. (At one point, women prisoners are pulling "fear" – rather than "lice" – out of their hair). Really kind of despicable all the way around.
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