![]() ![]() During the Cold War, Willner, then a 22-year-old U.S. ISBN 0062410318) is the true story of Willners mothers escape from communist East Germany at age 20, the large family she left behind the Iron Curtain, and their four-decade journey to reunite. Forty Autumns is an incredible story that perfectly captures what it was like to live in a world divided in two. Nina Willner is an American nonfiction author. Rich in drama and beautifully evocative, Nina takes us deep into the tumultuous and stifling world of East Germany under Communist rule, revealing both the cruel reality her relatives endured and her own experiences as an intelligence officer. Years after Hanna's brave escape to the West, Nina found herself working as an Army Intelligence officer in Berlin, leading secret operations just miles away from the family her mother left behind all those years ago. ![]() Hanna eventually moved to America where she gave birth to Nina and her brother. Forty Autumns traces the dramatic lives of the family on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Hanna left her parents, siblings and everything she had ever known behind. ![]() When Nina's mother Hanna was just twenty years old, she escaped to West Germany with nothing more than a small satchel and the clothes on her back. Print Forty Autumns - A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall ![]()
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