Summary of Nina Willner's The Boys in the Light

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Listen now to get the main key ideas from Nina Willner's The Boys in the Light The Boys in the Light (2025) by Nina Willner chronicles the extraordinary convergence of three young lives amidst the devastation of World War II—two American soldiers and her father, Eddie Willner, a teenager from Mönchengladbach, Germany. Eddie and his friend Mike endured years of forced labor and imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps. On the other side of the world, Americans only slightly older than Eddie were joining the US Army. Elmer Hovland, a stoic farm boy from rural Minnesota, and Sammy DeCola, a spirited Italian American from urban Massachusetts, were assigned to D Company of the 3rd Armored Division. The young soldiers grew hardened and disillusioned as the war dragged on, but everything changed when two starving boys emerged from the woods after escaping the camps. Saving those boys brought light back into the darkness of war. Both harrowing and hopeful, The Boys in the Light highlights extraordinary endurance, deep wartime bonds, and the unwavering will to survive.