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Nina Willner is an American nonfiction author, a former U.S. Army intelligence officer who led reconnaissance missions in East Berlin during the Cold War, and a human rights advocate. Her first book, Forty Autumns (2016), tells of her mother's escape from East Germany and the family left behind the Berlin Wall. The Boys in the Light recounts a story of survival and brotherhood during the Second World War.
Nina Willner is an American nonfiction author, a former U.S. Army intelligence officer who led reconnaissance missions in East Berlin during the Cold War, and a human rights advocate. Her first book, Forty Autumns (2016), tells of her mother's escape from East Germany and the family left behind the Berlin Wall. The Boys in the Light recounts a story of survival and brotherhood during the Second World War.