The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe - Brossura

Rabe, John

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ISBN 10: 0375701974 ISBN 13: 9780375701979

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2000

Riassunto

The personal journals of German businessman John Rabe describe the infamous 1937 Japanese siege of Nanking and his efforts to protect the Chinese from the massacre that followed, an endeavor that may have saved more than 250,000 lives. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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Recensione:

"Riveting, inspiring, terrifying and tragically sad."  -The New York Times Book Review

"John Rabe is the Oskar Schindler of China."  -Iris Chang, The New York Times

"A document of the power of the human will....A quarter-million Chinese survived the horror of Nanking because John Rabe didn't hesitate to act."  -The Boston Globe

L'autore:

John Rabe was born in Hamburg in 1882. He lived in China from 1908 to 1938, where his last position was that of director of the Siemens office in Nanking. He died impoverished and unrecognized in Berlin in 1950. Dr. Erwin Wickert, noted scholar and German ambassador to China from 1976 to 1980, first met Rabe in 1936 in Nanking. He is the author of several books about East Asia, including the best-selling China Seen from the Inside. With 2 maps and 59 illustrations.

The translator, John E.Woods, lives in San Diego, California.

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375701974
• ISBN 13: 9780375701979
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320