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A Memoir: A True Story of an Impossible Love
Masters Publishing Company LLC
June 2007
On Sale: June 1, 2007
336 pages
ISBN: 0979548500
EAN: 9780979548505
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Shortly after a touching romantic encounter with the
beautiful and earthy Giselle in liberated Paris, 1945,
American Lieutenant Bernard Bail was shot down on his
twenty-fifth flying mission over Germany while navigating a
squadron of B-24 bombers over their target. Seriously
wounded and taken as a prisoner of war, Lt. Bail is brought
to a hospital where during his recovery the impossible
happens: he and a young German nurse fall in love. Irmgard
awakens Lt. Bail’s spirit and opens his eyes to his inner
world. In this bittersweet love, Irmgard risks her life as
well as his, slipping poems and letters beneath his pillow
during the quiet midnight hours of her nursing rounds.
Irmgard’s words begin a transformation of Lt. Bail’s heart
and mind. As he falls in love with this deep and soulful
woman, Lt. Bail is forever changed. Even as he is liberated
by American troops at the end of World War II, the haunting
notes from Irmgard’s flute play vividly in his mind, and
the poems and letters Irmgard left under his pillow pervade
his thoughts for over six decades. Those letters, which Lt.
Bail still cherishes today, molded his life and deepened
his soul. Irmgard’s Flute is a poignant look at how Lt. Bail’s deep
affection for Giselle and love for Irmgard—two very
different women—ignited his understanding of destiny and
life. The intertwining of their souls in the most
improbable way and at the most impossible time set Lt. Bail
on a journey of the spirit. This book plumbs the depths of
human consciousness and tells a compelling story of romance
and love in its purest sense. The story traverses Paris at
war’s end, and chronicles a soldier’s return to postwar
America. A rich and living history unfolds, and we see it
through Bernard Bail’s eyes…and heart and mind. This true story of a young World War II Air Force officer
also illuminates the journey of a brilliant mind at the
deepest levels of self-exploration. A complex and
profoundly moving book, Irmgard’s Flute memorializes a many-
faceted love, one that truly transcends time, place,
personality, and nationality.
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