Table of Contents
Cast of Characters xiii
Prologue 1
Chapter 1 A Big, Rambunctious Family 3
Chapter 2 War Breaks Out 9
Chapter 3 Bonhoeffer Seals His Destiny 14
Chapter 4 Leaving Home for the First Time 19
Chapter 5 The Trip That Changed Everything 21
Chapter 6 The Men Who Would Change Bonhoeffer's Fate 23
Chapter 7 A New Idea of What a Church Could Be 26
Chapter 8 From Faith to Action 28
Chapter 9 Grappling with the Existence of God 32
Chapter 10 A Decisive Experience: Visiting the United States 36
Chapter 11 Heil, Hitler! 45
Chapter 12 Speaking Out against the Führer 52
Chapter 13 The Aryan Paragraph 55
Chapter 14 Committing Treason 60
Chapter 15 Bonfire of Hatred 63
Chapter 16 A Nazi Church 68
Chapter 17 A Different Kind of Resistance 72
Chapter 18 Night of the Long Knives 76
Chapter 19 A Breakaway Church 79
Chapter 20 A Conspiracy Begins 83
Chapter 21 The War Hits Home 87
Chapter 22 A Dark Night of the Soul 91
Chapter 23 From Clergyman to Courier 94
Chapter 24 Undercover 99
Chapter 25 Sounding the Alarm 104
Chapter 26 Love in Wartime 109
Chapter 27 The Noose Grows Tighter 114
Chapter 28 Assassination Attempts 118
Chapter 29 Caught 121
Chapter 30 Another Attempt on Hitler's Life 126
Chapter 31 Evidence of Treason 129
Chapter 32 The End of the War 133
Chapter 33 Eternity at Last 136
Epilogue 139
Author's Note 141
Acknowledgments 145
Timeline 149
Endnotes 155
Selected Bibliography 165
Index 167
