This book is an award-winning biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor and author during the years of Hitler’s rise to power and World War II. Besides giving great insight into Bonhoeffer’s life and thoughts from several primary sources, this book also helps the reader understand what it was like to be German during the years of the Third Reich. It also tells the courage of a few dissidents, including Bonhoeffer, who fought against Hitler and the Nazis from within Germany.