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It was to George Bell, an English bishop, that Dietrich Bonhoeffer
sent his last words before he was executed at the Flossenburg
concentration camp in April 1945. Why he did so becomes clear from
Andrew Chandler's new biography of George Kennedy Allen Bell
(1883-1958). As he traces the arc of Bell's life, Chandler shows
how his story reshapes our perspective on Bonhoeffer's life and
times. In addition to serving as Bishop of Chichester, Bell was an
internationalist and ecumenical leader, one of the great Christian
humanists of the twentieth century, a tenacious critic of the
obliteration bombing of enemy cities during World War II, and a key
ally of those who struggled for years to resist Hitler in Germany
itself. This inspiring biography raises important questions that
still haunt the moral imagination today: When should the word of
protest be spoken? When should nations go to war, and how should
they fight? What are our obligations to the victims of dictators
and international conflict?
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