Published by Little, Brown and Company of London in 1999. Hardcover. UK 1st edition. 1st Published in the USA in 1998. Book condition: Near Fine. Green cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Inside pages are in good order. Dust Jacket condition: Near Fine. Price unclipped. See photograph. Dims: 240mm x 160mm x 30mm. 320 pages. 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.

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Title: The Good German Of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, London, England
Publication Date: 1999
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0316648078
ISBN 13: 9780316648073
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Weight: 0.8 kilograms

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The Good German of Nanking The Diaries of John Rabe

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John Rabe was born in Hamburg in 1882, and died in Berlin in 1949.

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