Foreword xiii
Prologue 1
CHAPTER 1: Family and Childhood 5
CHAPTER 2: Tubingen, 1923 41
CHAPTER 3: Roman Holiday, 1924 49
CHAPTER 4: Student in Berlin, 1924-27 58
CHAPTER 5: Barcelona, 1928 69
CHAPTER 6: Berlin, 1929 88
CHAPTER 7: Bonhoeffer in America, 1930-31 99
CHAPTER 8: Berlin, 1931-32 119
CHAPTER 9: The Rihrer Principle, 1933 138
CHAPTER 10: The Church and the Jewish Question 150
CHAPTER 11: Nazi Theology 165
CHAPTER 12: The Church Struggle Begins 176
CHAPTER 13: The Bethel Confession 183
CHAPTER 14: Bonhoeffer in London, 1934-35 195
CHAPTER 15: The Church Battle Heats Up 204
CHAPTER 16: The Conference at Fanø 234
CHAPTER 17: The Road to Zingst and Finkenwalde 246
CHAPTER 18: Zingst and Finkenwalde 261
CHAPTER 19: Scylla and Charybdis, 1935-36 278
CHAPTER 20: Mars Ascending, 1938 302
CHAPTER 21: The Great Decision, 1939 321
CHAPTER 22: The End of Germany 347
CHAPTER 23: From Confession to Conspiracy 358
CHAPTER 24: Plotting Against Hitler 380
CHAPTER 25: Bonhoeffer Scores a Victory 394
CHAPTER 26: Bonhoeffer in Love 405
CHAPTER 27: Killing Adolf Hitler 423
CHAPTER 28: Cell 92 at Tegel Prison 432
CHAPTER 29: Valkyrie and the Stauffenberg Plot 475
CHAPTER 30: Buchenwald 504
CHAPTER 31: On the Road to Freedom 517
Notes 545
Bibliography 567
About the Author 571
Acknowledgments 575
Index 577