No Ordinary Men: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi, Resisters Against Hitler in Church and State (New York Review Books Collections)
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (950 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1590176812 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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James Connelly said A brief but immensely rewarding book. "No Ordinary Men" is brief; but its 150 pages vividly depict the related careers of two brothers-in-law, the well-known Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the lesser known Hans von Dohnanyi, in their courageous struggle against Nazi totalitarianism. It is hard to imagine how they kept to their righteous path through the temptations and terror and moral degeneracy that surrounded them as Germany foundered in the 19A brief but immensely rewarding book "No Ordinary Men" is brief; but its 150 pages vividly depict the related careers of two brothers-in-law, the well-known Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the lesser known Hans von Dohnanyi, in their courageous struggle against Nazi totalitarianism. It is hard to imagine how they kept to their righteous path through the temptations and terror and moral degeneracy that surrounded them as Germany foundered in the 1930s and 19A brief but immensely rewarding book James Connelly "No Ordinary Men" is brief; but its 150 pages vividly depict the related careers of two brothers-in-law, the well-known Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the lesser known Hans von Dohnanyi, in their courageous struggle against Nazi totalitarianism. It is hard to imagine how they kept to their righteous path through the temptations and terror and moral degeneracy that surrounded them as Germany foundered in the 1930s and 1940s. Yet they . 0s. Yet they . 0s and 19A brief but immensely rewarding book James Connelly "No Ordinary Men" is brief; but its 150 pages vividly depict the related careers of two brothers-in-law, the well-known Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the lesser known Hans von Dohnanyi, in their courageous struggle against Nazi totalitarianism. It is hard to imagine how they kept to their righteous path through the temptations and terror and moral degeneracy that surrounded them as Germany foundered in the 1930s and 1940s. Yet they . 0s. Yet they . "A must-read starter volume on the Bonhoeffer-Dohnanyi story underlying the German resistance movement against Hitler" according to Kraig McNutt. I found my copy of this book in the mail box at 1pm today. I finished reading it by 10pm the same day, having been distracted by a basketball game and a football bowl game. Though small in size, this book packs a powerful punch. It's a great starter-volume on the Bonhoeffer-Dohnanyi story of passive and active resistance against the authoritarian and demonic Reich led by the murderous Hitler. After 'No Ordinary Men' I would su. In fact, rather extraordinary men. I have long wondered how the Nazis managed to squelch any criticism of their management of the national policies. Granted, here in the USA we speak, nay, shout our disapproval of politics and policies we don't agree with. But, could the Germans be so docile, so ignorant, so tame, they just said, "so what?" to everything that was changing in their daily lives? And yet, that is what occurred. They seemed to knuckle under rather
Sifton and Stern offer dramatic new details and interpretations in their account of the extraordinary efforts in which the two jointly engaged. The strength of their shared commitment to these undertakings—and to the people they were helping—endured even after their arrest in April 1943 and until, after great suffering, they were executed on Hitler’s express orders in April 1945, just weeks before the Third Reich collapsed.Bonhoeffer’s posthumously published Letters and Papers from Prison and other writings found a wide international audience, but
. She is the author of The Serenity Prayer: Faith and Politics in Times of Peace and War (2004), about the background to the famous prayer written by her father, Reinhold Niebuhr.Fritz Stern is University Professor Emeritus and the former provost of Columbia University, with which he has been associated since the 1940s. Elisabeth Sifton has been an editor and book publisher for many decades. His many books include The Politics of Cultural Despair (1963), Gold and
“Sifton and Stern’s chronicle is brief but deeply informed. A peaceable state of mind simply accompanies the reader as he ends this effortlessly elegant, uniformly sensible paean to the human faith that Sifton inherited.” —Carlin Romano, Philadelphia Inquirer . A major contribution to the intellectual history of modernity.” —Arthur Schlesinger Jr.“An ebullient and shrewd meditation on faith and social action. And while Hans’s name appears in most academic studies of the resistance, this new book is clearly written with a larger audience in mind. The prose conveys a sense of historical perspective but also, just below the surface, a compassion possibly born of the auth