A review by bubblee89
The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe by Erwin Wickert, John Rabe, John E. Woods

5.0

A harrowing and emotional true life account about the first days of the Japanese occupation in Nanking, Rabe really captured a narrator's voice while writing in his personal journals. While sometimes difficult to read (in the sense that the brutality described is almost too bestial to be true) the translated diary's of John Rabe stand as reminder of the Holocaust that was committed, and then forgotten about, in China during WWII. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Chinese, Japanese, and German history, as well as World War II and memoir readers.