Erwin Wickert Editor (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. y Very Good. y First Thus. London: Little Brown and Company (UK), 1999. Book. Very Good. Green Cloth Boards. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Account of the heroic actions of a solitary German who refused to leave the Chinese capital as the Japanese army advanced, recorded in the diary he wrote nightly. English translation by John E Woods. 294pp with notes, illustrated with black and white photographs to the text. Maps to endpapers, gilt lettering to spine. Slight bumping to spine, minor marking to top edges and tiny nick to one fore-edges, otherwise very good copy with no inscriptions. Unclipped DJ has minor edge and surface wear, otherwise very good. Book.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 320 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

SOFTCOVER. In 1937, as the invading Japanese Army closed on Nanking, then the capital of China, all foreigners were ordered to leave the city. One man, a mild 55-year-old German named John Rabe, who ran the local Siemens factory, refused on the grounds that it would show a bad example to his Chinese workers. Sending his wife and family to safety, he watched in horror as the Japanese began to wipe out the population. Hastily contacting the tiny remaining community of foreigners - fewer than 20 people - and using the flimsy authority of a pact Hitler had made with the Japanese, Rabe spent months safeguarding and providing refuge for thousands of Chinese, often interposing himself physically between the executioners and their victims. 1999. A trade paperback copy in fine. unmarked and unread condition. ---length:- '23.4'width:- '15.3'units:- Centimeters.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 320 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.