| Date | 1998 |
| Publish_location | New York |
| Publisher | A.A. Knopf |
| Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
| Edition | First American Edition |
| Language | English |
| Record_type | Book |
| Series | |
| Shelf | Reading Room |
| Call Number | DS796.G772 R223 1998 |
| Description | xx, 294 p. : ill., maps, ports., facsims. ; 25 cm. |
| Note | The good man of Nanking : the diaries of John Rabe / edited by Erwin Wickert ; translated from the German by John E. Woods. Includes maps of Nanking and Asia in 1938. Includes bibliography: p. 289-294. The personal journals of German businessman John Rabe describe the 1937 Japanese siege of Nanking and his efforts to protect the Chinese from the massacre that followed. Contents: Foreword / Erwin Wickert -- From John Rabe's Nanking Diary -- How It Began -- Things Get Serious -- Waiting for the Attack -- The Japanese March In -- Christmas -- New Year -- The Diplomats Return -- Closing Down the Siemens Nanking Branch -- The Japanese Want to Clear the Safety Zone -- The Living Buddha -- Farewell -- John Rabe in His German Homeland -- Between the Nanking and Berlin Diaries -- John Rabe's Berlin Diary -- Afterword / Erwin Wickert. Translation of: John Rabe. Der gute Deutsche von Nanking. |
| Subject | China--History--1937-1945 Nanjing Shi 南京市--History--20th century Rabe, John, 1882-1950--Diaries Nanking Massacre, Nanjing Shi, China, 1937--Personal narratives, German |
| ISBN | 037540211X ; 9780375402111 |
| LCCN | 98-15885 |
