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Willner, Nina, 1961-
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Willner, Nina, 1961- -- Family.
Willner, Nina, 1961-
Women -- Germany (East) -- Biography.
Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 -- History.
German Americans -- Biography.
Women intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography.
Intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography.
Germany (East) -- Biography.
Berlin (Germany) -- Biography.
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Willner, Nina, 1961-
Willner, Nina, 1961- -- Family.
Willner, Nina, 1961-
Women -- Germany (East) -- Biography.
Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 -- History.
German Americans -- Biography.
Women intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography.
Intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography.
Germany (East) -- Biography.
Berlin (Germany) -- Biography.
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Forty
autumns
: a
family
's
story
of
courage
and
survival
on
both
sides
of the
Berlin
Wall
/ Nina Willner.
by
Willner, Nina, 1961-
HarperLuxe, c2016.
Call #:
LP 929.20943 W738f
Subjects
Willner, Nina, 1961- --
Family
.
Willner, Nina, 1961-
Women -- Germany (East) -- Biography.
Berlin
Wall
,
Berlin
, Germany, 1961-1989 -- History.
German Americans -- Biography.
Women intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography.
Intelligence officers -- United States -- Biography.
Germany (East) -- Biography.
Berlin
(Germany) -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780062496911 (pbk. : large print)
Edition:
1st HarperLux ed.
Description:
xxi, 512 p. (large print), [16] p. of plates : ill., geneal. tables, photos ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Family
and historical chronology --
Family
tree -- PART ONE -- The Handover : End of War (1945) -- An Iron Curtain Descends : Cold War Begins (1945-1946) -- "If You Want to Get Out, Do It Soon" : Close Calls and Escapes (1946-1948) -- Flight : A Small Suitcase and The Final Escape (August 11, 1948) -- PART TWO -- Two Castles : Out of the Whirlwind (1948-1949) -- A Sister Born in the East : The Stasi Takes Control (1949-1952) -- "We Want To Be Free" : A Workers' Uprising (1953) -- The Visit : Sisters Meet (1954) -- Life Normalizes in a Police State : A Courtship (1955-1957) -- The Fur Coat : Last Meeting (1958-1959) -- PART THREE -- "A
Wall
Will Keep the Enemy Out" : A
Wall
to Keep the People In (1960-1961) -- The
Family
Wall
: Oma'
s
Faith and Opa'
s
Defiance (1962-1965) -- Only Party Members Succeed : "We Have Each Other" (1966-1969) -- A Message With No Words : Oma'
s
Love from Afar (1970-1974) -- Dissidents and Troublemakers : Opa Committed (1975-1977) -- A Light Shines : "Our Souls Are Free" (1977) -- A Surprise from America : Innocence (1978-1980) -- Paradise Bungalow : Refuge and Solace (1980-1982) -- PART FOUR -- Assignment:
Berlin
: Intelligence Operations (1982-1984) -- Face-to-Face with Honecker : Mission in Ludwigslust (1984-1985) -- Beyond the Checkpoint : Passage (1985) -- Imagine : The Road Ahead (1986) -- "Tear Down This
Wall
" : Winds of Change (1987-1988) -- "Gorby, Save Us!" : A Nation Crumbles (1989) -- The World is Stunned : "Schabowski Said We Can!" or The
Wall
Falls (November 9, 1989) -- Dawn : TK (Autumn 1989) -- Reunion and Rebirth : TK (1990- 2013) -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Author'
s
Note.
Summary:
"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
.
Forty
Autumns
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--leaving behind her parents, eight siblings, and
family
home--was 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'
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. 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. In
Forty
Autumns
, Nina recounts her
family
's story--five 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,
Forty
Autumns
is an intimate and beautifully written
story
of
courage
, resilience, and love--of five women whose spirits could not be broken, and who fought to preserve what matters most:
family
.
Forty
Autumns
is illustrated with dozens of black-and-white and color photographs" -- Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Memoirs.
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