In Forty Autumns she vividly brings to life many accounts of courage and survival, set against the backdrop of four decades that divided a nation and the world.There are books that are great not because of how they are written, but because of the information they carry, the story they tell, or the truth they convey. Once the Berlin Wall came down, and the families were reunited, Nina Willner discovered an extraordinary story. Though separated by only a few miles, Nina and her relatives led entirely different lives.
At the same time, Heidi's daughter, Cordula, was training to become a member of the East German Olympic cycling team.
Her father was under close observation her mother, younger sister Heidi and the others struggled to adjust to life under a bizarre and brutal regime that kept its citizens cut off from the outside world.Ī few years later, Hanna had a daughter - Nina - who grew up to become the first female US Army intelligence officer to lead sensitive intelligence collection operations in East Berlin at the height of the Cold War. She made many attempts to establish contact with her family, but most were unsuccessful. The construction of the Berlin Wall severed all hope of any future reunion. As Hanna built a new life in the West, her relatives (her mother, father and eight siblings) remained in the East.
Shortly after the end of the Second World War, as the Soviets took control of the eastern part of Germany, Hanna, a schoolteacher's daughter, escaped with nothing more than a small suitcase and the clothes on her back. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo In Forty Autumns, Nina Willner recounts the history of three generations of her family - mothers, sisters, daughters and cousins - separated by forty years of Soviet rule, and reunited after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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