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Forty Autumns Single Edition

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by Nina Willner

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"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"šÃ„îof five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, and their miraculous reunion after the fall of the Berlin Wall. makes visceral the pain and longing of one family forced to live apart in a world divided by two. At twenty, Hanna escaped from East to West Germany. But the price of freedom"šÃ„îleaving behind her parents, eight siblings, and family home"šÃ„îwas heartbreaking. Uprooted, Hanna eventually moved to America, where she settled down with her husband and had children of her own. Growing up near Washington, D.C., Hanna"šÃ„ôs 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. Though only a few miles separated American Nina and her German relatives"šÃ„îgrandmother Oma, Aunt Heidi, and cousin, Cordula, a member of the East German Olympic training team"šÃ„îa bitter political war kept them apart. In , Nina recounts her family"šÃ„ôs story"šÃ„îfive ordinary lives buffeted by circumstances beyond their control. She takes us deep into the tumultuous and terrifying world of East Germany under Communist rule, revealing both the cruel reality her relatives endured and her own experiences as an intelligence officer, running secret operations behind the Berlin Wall that put her life at risk. A personal look at a tenuous era that divided a city and a nation, and continues to haunt us, is an intimate and beautifully written story of courage, resilience, and love"šÃ„îof five women whose spirits could not be broken, and who fought to preserve what matters most: family. is illustrated with dozens of black-and-white and color photographs. "
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    Penerbit

    Harper Collins

  • Tanggal Terbit

    14 Sep, 2016

    Penulis
    Nina Willner
  • Bahasa

    Indonesia

    ISBN

    9780062410337

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