The Good Man of Nanking

Infobox Book
name = The Good Man of Nanking
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translator = John E. Woods


image_caption = First edition cover of "The Good Man of Nanking"
author = John Rabe
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country = United States of America
language = English
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subject = Nanking Massacre
genre = Autobiography
publisher = Knopf Publishing Group
pub_date = November 1998
media_type = Print (Hardcover)
pages = 384 pp "(first edition)"
isbn = ISBN 037540211X
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"The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe" is a collection of the personal journals of John Rabe, a German businessman who lived in Nanjing at the time of the Nanking Massacre in 1937–1938. The book contains the diaries that Rabe kept during the Nanking Massacre, writing from his personal experience and observation of the events that took place. Rabe's diaries were made known and quoted by author Iris Chang during the research for her book, "The Rape of Nanking";cite web|url=http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/04/17/CMGCNBQRRP1.DTL|title=Historian Iris Chang won many battles/The war she lost raged within|publisher=SFGate|date=2005-04-17|accessdate=2007-08-28] they were subsequently translated from German to English by John E. Wood and published in the United States in 1998.

ee also

*American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking

References

External links

* [http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://graphics.nytimes.com/books/98/12/13/reviews/037540211X.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/12/13/reviews/981213.13wudunnt.html&h=152&w=100&sz=12&hl=en&start=5&sig2=296skjwzHfyopndInKrP5g&um=1&tbnid=VPP3SJdL733YjM:&tbnh=96&tbnw=63&ei=H8TURquDMJqMeISXuKEJ&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522Good%2BMan%2Bof%2BNanking%2522%2B1998%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN The Good Nazi] , The New York Times
* [http://www.ideajournal.com/articles.php?id=22 The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe] , IDEA