Nina Willner
American author and former U.S. Army intelligence officer, best known for the memoir "Forty Autumns," which recounts her family's experiences in East Germany and the impact of the Berlin Wall.
Books
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1. The Boys In The Light
The Boys in the Light follows two parallel stories: Eddie Willner, a Jewish teenager forced into Nazi concentration camps, and D Company, a unit of U.S. tank soldiers who are transformed by combat. The narrative tracks Eddie’s struggle to survive Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the American soldiers’ journey from ordinary young men to battle-hardened troops. Their paths converge when the unit encounters two emaciated, tattooed boys, offering a powerful, spoiler-free exploration of survival, courage, and the human cost of war.
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