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xxxii, 606 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Family and childhood -- Tübingen, 1923 -- Roman holiday, 1924 -- Student in Berlin, 1924-27 -- Barcelona, 1928 -- Berlin, 1929 -- Bonhoeffer in America, 1930-31 -- Berlin, 1931-32 -- The Führer principle, 1933 -- The church and the Jewish question -- Nazi theology -- The church struggle begins -- The Bethel confession -- Bonhoeffer in London, 1934-35 -- The church battle heats up -- The conference at Fanø -- The road to Zingst and Finkenwalde -- Zingst and Finkenwalde -- Scylla and Charybdis, 1935-36 -- Mars ascending, 1938 -- The great decision, 1939 -- The end of Germany -- From confession to conspiracy -- Plotting against Hitler -- Bonhoeffer scores a victory -- Bonhoeffer in love -- Killing Adolf Hitler -- Cell 92 at Tegel Prison -- Valkyrie and the Stauffenberg plot -- Buchenwald -- On the road to freedom. |
| Summary |
As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from the inside. One of these was Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor and author. In his blockbuster New York Times bestselling biography, Eric Metaxas takes both strands of Bonhoeffer's life--the theologian and the spy--and draws them together to tell a searing story of incredible moral courage in the face of monstrous evil. Metaxas presents the fullest accounting of Bonhoeffer's heart-wrenching decision to leave the safe haven of America to return to Hitler's Germany, and sheds new light on Bonhoeffer's involvement in the famous Valkyrie plot and in "Operation 7," the effort to smuggle Jews into neutral Switzerland. In a deeply moving narrative, Metaxas uses previously unavailable documents?including personal letters, detailed journal entries, and firsthand personal accounts to reveal dimensions of Bonhoeffer's life and theology never before seen. |
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Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945.
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Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945 -- Political and social views.
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Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Assassination attempts.
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Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945. |
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Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945. |
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Theologians -- Germany -- Biography.
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Clergy -- Germany -- Biography.
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Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- Germany -- Biography.
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Spies -- Germany -- Biography.
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Christian martyrs -- Germany -- Biography.
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Anti-Nazi movement -- Germany.
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Anti-Nazi movement. |
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Attempted assassination. |
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Christian martyrs. |
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Clergy. |
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Political and social views. |
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Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. |
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Spies. |
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Theologians. |
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Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Biography.
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Germany. |
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Biographies.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Keller, Timothy, 1950-2023, writer of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9781400224647 (paperback) |
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1400224640 (paperback) |
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