nan-ching shih (china)

Journal entries written by John Rabe help chronicle the experiences he had while he was helping to save thousands of Chinese men and women from the torture the Japanese were inflicting on them.

A collection of journal entries that describe the author's experiences while helping to save thousands of Chinese from capture and torture by the Japanese in 1938 Nanking.

Details the massacre that took place in December 1937 when the Japanese army overthrew the ancient city of Nanking, China, and raped, tortured, and murdered over 300,000 civilians; examining the atrocity from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers, the Chinese civilians, and the Europeans and Americans who created a safety zone for survivors.