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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 951.042 EAN: 9780375701979 Edition: Reprint ISBN: 0375701974 Label: Vintage Manufacturer: Vintage Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: March 14, 2000 Publisher: Vintage Release Date: March 14, 2000 Studio: Vintage Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: In November 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army took Nanking (Nanjing), the capital of China and home to 1.3 million people, and began an orgy of murder, rape, and looting. By the time discipline was restored two months later, hundreds of thousands of Chinese were dead, with hundreds of thousands more homeless, starving, and traumatized. The Rape of Nanking, as it is commonly known, still causes international controversy, as Japanese politicians refuse to apologize unequivocally to China and school textbooks continue to misrepresent the events. Like Oskar Schindler of Schindler's List, John Rabe was an enterprising and fundamentally decent German businessman caught up in war. Head of the Nanjing branch of Siemens, the German electronics firm, he had lived and worked in China for almost 30 years. Rather than flee from the threatened city, he stayed to organize a safety zone as refuge of last resort for Chinese civilians. The Good Man of Nanking is his firsthand description of the terrible events and his ultimate success in saving perhaps a quarter of a million lives. The diary format provides a forum for the extraordinary power and immediacy of John Rabe's words, including his gallows humor, placing the reader there in Nanking as the bombs explode and the Japanese soldiers begin their massacres. Rabe's trials were not over when he returned to wartime Germany; diary entries that he wrote during the occupation of Berlin by the Soviet army form a fascinating coda to this book. --John Stevenson Product Description: The Good Man of Nanking is a crucial document for understanding one of World War II's most horrific incidents of genocide, one which the Japanese have steadfastly refused to acknowledge. It is also the moving and awe-inspiring record of one man's conscience, courage, and generosity in the face of appalling human brutality. Until the recent emergence of John Rabe's diaries, few people knew abouth the unassuming hero who has been called the Oskar Schindler of China. In Novemgber 1937, as Japanese troops overran the Chinese capital of Nanking and began a campaign of torture, rape, and murder against its citizens, one man-a German who had lived in China for thirty years and who was a loyal follower of Adolph Hitler-put himself at risk and in order to save the lives of 200,000 poor Chinese, 600 of whom he sheltered in his own home. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Remember Nanking and Pearl Harbor - There's a Reason for Hiroshima and NagasakiLike Anne Frank, whose diary remains a timeless testimonial to the horrors of the Holocaust, John Rabe kept a memorable diary that documented a horrific record of mass rape, murder and mutiliation committed by the Japanese toward the Chinese during WWII. And just as there are neo-Nazis who claim the Holocaust never happened and claim Anne Frank was fictional, so we have the Nanking massacre-deniers, primarily Japanese who claim that Rabe lied and that the massacre was an illusion. And yet it is common ... Read More Rating:  - Japanese historyThis is a topic that must be handled gently. We are dealing with peoples emotions and emotions are delicate things. In all wars there are men on both sides who commit crimes. Only a fool would deny that. "The Good Man of Nanking" is generating a lot of heat; that is why I think it is a good 2nd book to read if you're Japanese, not a good first book. I highly recommend the book (not the DVD) "To End All Wars" by Earnest Gordon. The book was written by a Scottish Army officer who was a prisoner ... Read More Rating: - Chinese HolocaustWith The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang, this is essential reading for those who would like to know more about the Chinese Holocaust: millions of Chinese civilians murdered by the Japanese form 1931 on. Rating: - Such a great bookThe book shows you what really happened in Nanking from a foreiger point of view. It's such a great book!! I have to salute to the author's courage and integrity. Rating: - The Japanese Nationalists just don't get it.I came across this book when I'm translating first-person acounts of Nanjing Massacre survivors for a new documentary that's coming out in the US. I've read so many people raving about John Rabe, Minnie Vautrin and Father McGee, about how they saved the survivors' lives. I just don't get how there are so many Japanese still denying what had happened. How was it possible for the CCP to pay Rabe to make up stories like that? Some people are just unbelievable! I have several friends who did the JET program and ... Read More 
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