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The faithful spy : Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the plot to kill Hitler / John Hendrix.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: �2018 Publisher: New York : Amulet Books, 2018Description: 175 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1419728385
  • 141973265X
  • 9781419728389
  • 9781419732652
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 230/.044092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • BX4827.B57 H454 2018
Contents:
The young theologian -- A young German in Harlem -- God is my Führer -- The decision -- Jamming the spoke -- The pastor in cell block 92 -- The end, the beginning.
Awards:
  • Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 2018
  • Kirkus Prize Nominee for Young Readers' Literature, 2018
  • School Library Journal's Best Books, 2018
  • YALSA Finalist for Excellence in Nonfiction, 2019
Summary: "Adolf Hitler's Nazi party is gaining strength and becoming more menacing every day. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor upset by the complacency of the German church toward the suffering around it, forms a breakaway church to speak out against the established political and religious authorities. When the Nazis outlaw the church, he escapes as a fugitive. Struggling to reconcile his faith and the teachings of the Bible with the Nazi Party's evil agenda, Bonhoeffer decides that Hitler must be stopped by any means possible! In his signature style of interwoven handwritten text and art, John Hendrix tells the true story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor who makes the ultimate sacrifice in order to free the German people from oppression during World War II"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 172) and index.

The young theologian -- A young German in Harlem -- God is my Führer -- The decision -- Jamming the spoke -- The pastor in cell block 92 -- The end, the beginning.

"Adolf Hitler's Nazi party is gaining strength and becoming more menacing every day. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor upset by the complacency of the German church toward the suffering around it, forms a breakaway church to speak out against the established political and religious authorities. When the Nazis outlaw the church, he escapes as a fugitive. Struggling to reconcile his faith and the teachings of the Bible with the Nazi Party's evil agenda, Bonhoeffer decides that Hitler must be stopped by any means possible! In his signature style of interwoven handwritten text and art, John Hendrix tells the true story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor who makes the ultimate sacrifice in order to free the German people from oppression during World War II"-- Provided by publisher.

Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 2018

Kirkus Prize Nominee for Young Readers' Literature, 2018

School Library Journal's Best Books, 2018

YALSA Finalist for Excellence in Nonfiction, 2019

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