THE GOOD MAN OF NANKING

Precious little exists in audio about the "Chinese holocaust" during WWII, and this first-person account of it by a Nazi aristocrat provides a unique, yet biased, story. The choice of an American woman to read the diary of a German man shows the ultimate lack of care in reader selection, unless the whine of her voice was thought to portray the fuss of the diarist as he complains about the lack of household servants, space for his 53 crates of luggage, and insulin for his diabetes. Cassette one quits before the narrator does, producing an "abridgment without the approval of the author." J.A.H. © AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine [Published: DEC/JAN 01]