Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall

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 separ…

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