Then, one day, it all ended, and I don’t think anyone saw it coming. I grew up like many waiting for the day when the confrontation between superpowers, the United States and the USSR, would either lead to war or nuclear attack.
I was 12 when the wall came down, and the event was a landmark in my life. Nina Willner is Hanna’s daughter and becomes a US Army intelligence officer. Over the next forty years, she and her family will have only scarce and limited contact, divided by the oppression of the East German communist government. Forty Autumns is just such a book, great because it tells a story that is heartbreaking and tragic, because it is true, and because it is a cautionary tale to those who have already forgotten the lessons of history.įorty Autumns tells the story of a family divided when Hanna escapes to the west from East Germany just in time to escape the rise of the Berlin Wall.
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.
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