![]() ![]() Though only a few miles separated American Nina and her German relatives-grandmother Oma, Aunt Heidi, and cousin, Cordula, a member of the East German Olympic training team-a bitter political war kept them apart. Growing up near Washington, D.C., Hanna's daughter, Nina Willner became the first female Army Intelligence Officer to lead sensitive intelligence operations in East Berlin at the height of the Cold War. Uprooted, Hanna eventually moved to America, where she settled down with her husband and had children of her own. ![]() But the price of freedom-leaving behind her parents, eight siblings, and family home-was heartbreaking. At twenty, Hanna escaped from East to West Germany. Forty Autumns makes visceral the pain and longing of one family forced to live apart in a world divided by two. In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family-of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall. ![]()
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