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Hardcover
By Eric Metaxas
542 pp
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, known as much for such spiritual classics as The Cost of Discipleship and Life Together, as for his 1945 execution in a concentration camp for his part in the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
In the first major biography of Bonhoeffer in forty years, 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. 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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