Irmgard's Flute: A Memoir: A True Story of an Impossible Love

In March 1945, American Lieutenant Bernard Bail was shot down on his twenty-fifth flying mission over Germany. Seriously wounded and taken as a prisoner of war, Lt. Bail was brought to a hospital where during his recovery the impossible happened: he and a young German nurse fell in love. Irmgard risked her life - as well as his - slipping poems and letters beneath his pillow each night. The haunting notes from Irmgard's flute play vividly in his mind, and the poems and letters Irmgard left for him sent him on a journey of the spirit for over six decades, moulding his life and deepening his soul. This true story of a young World War II Air Force officer who became a distinguished psychoanalyst 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.