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Author: John Rabe
ISBN: 9781481578523

By: John Rabe

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Read By: Anna Fields Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Listen Time: 9.50 hours at 1.0x Speed 6.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.75 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: October 2008 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781481578523

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99:45 minutes

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40:22 minutes

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Publisher Description

This unique and gripping document contains the recently discovered diaries of a German businessman, John Rabe, who saved so many lives in the infamous siege of Nanking in 1937 that he is now being honored as the Oskar Schindler of China. As the Japanese army closed in and all foreigners were ordered to evacuate, Rabe mobilized the remaining Westerners in Nanking and organized an “International Safety Zone” which guaranteed safety to all unarmed Chinese by virtue of Germany’s pact with Japan. As hundreds of thousands of Chinese streamed into the city, all that stood between them and certain slaughter were Rabe and his committee, and it is thought that he saved more than 250,000 lives. After the siege, when he was arrested by the Gestapo in Germany, he survived the war and the starvation that followed with help from the Chinese government. His journal is a record of inhuman horror and unpretentious heroism.

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"This was my first book about the way the Chinese were treated by the Japanese in WWII. John Rabe definitely lives up to his name as the German Oskar Shindler. Fascinating story full of compassion. Rabe manages to keep his sense of humor and wit throughout all the horrible atrocities of war."
— Mary (4 out of 5 stars)

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“Riveting, inspiring, terrifying, and tragically sad.”
— New York Times Book Review
“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.”
— Boston Globe
“Fields’ even-toned, unvoiced performance provides the serious tone that this work deserves.”
— Kliatt
“The diary format provides a forum for the extraordinary power and immediacy of John Rabe’s words, including his gallows humor, placing the reader there in Nanking as the bombs explode and the Japanese soldiers begin their massacres.”
— Amazon.com
“The matter-of-fact way that he writes about those extraordinary events serves to underline the horrors experienced by all in Nanking…The book’s strength is…the immediacy of the story being told. This is one worth telling.”
— Booklist
“Rabe’s dramatic and perhaps, to some, ambiguous tale shows how unremarkable people can sometimes do remarkable things, and how one evil can, sometimes, be used to fight another.”
— Kirkus Reviews

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" This is a good first introduction to the terrible event that is the Nanking Massacre. The character of John Rabe comes through very strongly. He really had a sort of greatness thrust upon him. "
— Johan, 4/27/2012
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" This is a fabulous challenge of your automatic vilification of anyone a member of the Nazi Party. "
— Jodi, 2/12/2012
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" This is a mediocre book that promised more but didn't deliver. Perhaps, it's the translation. Anywhoooooo! "
— Amber, 7/30/2011
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" Disturbing. Definitely NOT for the faint hearted. "
— Jada, 5/30/2011
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" Not compelling but a competent first-person account of the Rape of Nanjing. I read it in conjunction with my stay in Nanjing where I studied Chinese. My school, Nanjing Normal University, was inside the "safe zone" that John Rabe set up in the midst of mass murder. "
— Mr.david, 12/4/2010
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" Another account of Nanking during Japanese occupation from a German man name John Rabe. "
— nic, 6/1/2010
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" I read this as a follow up to "The Rape of Nanking". It was interesting, but not as emotionally overwhelming since I was still raw from the latter. "
— Liz, 8/25/2009
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" This is a fabulous challenge of your automatic vilification of anyone a member of the Nazi Party. "
— Jodi, 8/15/2008
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" I read this as a follow up to "The Rape of Nanking". It was interesting, but not as emotionally overwhelming since I was still raw from the latter. "
— Liz, 5/7/2008
Overall Performance:
" Not compelling but a competent first-person account of the Rape of Nanjing. I read it in conjunction with my stay in Nanjing where I studied Chinese. My school, Nanjing Normal University, was inside the "safe zone" that John Rabe set up in the midst of mass murder. "
— Mr.david, 1/12/2008
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" Another account of Nanking during Japanese occupation from a German man name John Rabe. "
— nic, 4/12/2007

About John Rabe

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. His wartime diaries were published as The Good Man of Nanking. Rabe died impoverished and unrecognized in Berlin in 1950.

About Anna Fields

Jennifer Van Dyck has appeared on Broadway in Hedda Gabler, Dancing at Lughnasa, Two Shakespearean Actors, and The Secret Rapture. She has been in new plays by Keith Bunin, Ellen McLaughlin, Catherine Filloux, Douglas Post, A. R. Gurney, and Albert Innaurato. Her film and television credits include Series 7, States of Control, Bullets over Broadway, numerous Law & Order episodes, Ed, Spin City, and The Education of Max Bickford. Her audiobook narrations have won her three AudioFile Earphones Awards.