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This book reads like a modern book of Acts. It is not only a fascinating and inspiring chronicle, but one of the best inside views of the rise of the Third Reich. Barth provides an invaluable account of how a community of Christians negotiated the moral and spiritual challenges of that terrible time.

—Robert Ellsberg, author of Modern Spiritual Classics

Emmy Barth has expertly and lovingly woven together a seamless narrative that vividly chronicles the Bruderhof community’s sacrifice, heroism, faith, determination, and courage. An Embassy Besieged is an inspiration to today’s readers.

—Ari L. Goldman, author of The Search for God at Harvard

This moving story raises profound questions: Can we deny God’s presence in any enemy? What does it mean to carry out Jesus’ command to love the enemy in the context of a nation carrying out demonic policies? And how should the church act today in a national security state whose weapons and policies threaten the world? Barth’s depiction of the Bruderhof’s life and trials in Nazi Germany offers inspiration and hope for our own equally profound questions of Christian discipleship.

—Jim Douglass, author of JFK and the Unspeakable

Arnold once said: “To be an ambassador for God’s kingdom is something tremendous. When we take this service upon us, we enter into mortal danger.” In 1937 the Gestapo confiscated the Bruderhof’s farm and dissolved their community. The few remaining members were expelled under guard, apart from three men detained in prison for alleged fraud. Their escape to freedom makes a fitting close to this lively, detailed account of one community’s courageous witness to the gospel.

—John Conway, author of The Nazi Persecution of the Churches