A review by eerupps
The Girl in the Blue Beret by Bobbie Ann Mason

5.0

This book tells the story of an American pilot who crashed landed a plane in Belgium in 1944 and the events that followed. The story begins in 1980 when he is forced to retire from being a commercial pilot at age 60 and decides that his life is incomplete, so he goes back to Belgium and then France to retrace his steps with hopes of reconnecting with people from the French resistance that sacrificed so much to save his life and the lives of his fellow aviators. I loved the way this story flowed and the entire time I was reading, I could not help but wonder about other people who have lived through wars and how the things they experienced must affect and change the course of the rest of their lives. The author's message seemed to be that facing the difficult things head on can be very rewarding and therapeutic.