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Thank you Edward. Yes, next book on the way. Another narrative nonfiction. More details when I can share.
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Forty Autumns
Forty Autumns (HarperCollins William Morrow) is a true story of escape, those that remained behind the Iron Curtain and an American spy mission into the heart of Soviet territory.
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“What will become of a country...when a mother cannot trust her own children, and they, in turn, cannot trust their own families?”
― Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
― Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
“It pained Oma to watch her children enter the youth movement. Nothing good, she thought, could come from the East German regime manipulating the minds of the country’s vulnerable youth. She could see how such pledges filled with propaganda had taken the place of prayers and hymns in the way that they invited worship of an ignoble and sinister power.”
― Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
― Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
“The first challenge the Soviets faced was to change the mind-set of the almost 19 million German citizens who, long before World War II, had been led to believe that communism was the greatest threat to the Western world. Stalin demanded the transition be swift, and the approach uncompromising”
― Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
― Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
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