Nina Willner
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Nina Willner

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Nina Willner is the award-winning author of two critically acclaimed nonfiction books, The Boys in the Light, which was named Amazon's #3 Best Book of 2025 - Top Nonfiction, and Best History Book of the Year, and Forty Autumns, named a Top 15 Nonfiction Book of 2016 by The CS Monitor. Prior to her writing career, Nina was a US Army intelligence officer who led sensitive missions behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. After a career in intelligence, Nina lived in Moscow, Minsk, Prague, Ottawa and Istanbul working on numerous humanitarian missions. After years living abroad, she now writes narrative nonfiction full time from her home in Washington DC.
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    • Forty Autumns

    • A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
    • Written by: Nina Willner
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 2016-10-04
    • Language: English
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