About the Book
In December 1937, the Chinese capital, Nanjing, falls and the Japanese army unleash an orgy of torture, murder, and rape. Over the course of six weeks, hundreds of thousands of civilians and prisoners of war are killed. At the very onset of the atrocities, the Danish supervisor at a cement plant just outside the city, 26-year-old Bernhard Arp Sindberg, opens the factory gates and welcomes in 10,000 Chinese civilians to safety. He becomes an Asian equivalent of Oskar Schindler, the savior of Jews in the Holocaust. This biography follows Sindberg from his childhood and on his first adventures as a sailor and a Foreign Legionnaire to the 104 days as a rescuer of thousands of helpless men, women, and children in the darkest hour of the Sino-Japanese War. After his remarkable achievement, he receded back into obscurity, spending decades at sea and becoming a naturalized American citizen, before dying of old age in Los Angeles in 1983. The book sets the record straight by providing the first complete account of Sindberg's life in English. What emerges is the surprising tale of a person who was average in every respect but rose to the occasion when faced with unimaginable brutality, discovering an inner strength and courage that transformed him into one of the great humanitarian figures of the twentieth century and an inspiration for our modern age.
About the Author :
Peter Harmsen is the author of Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze and Nanjing 1937: Battle for a Doomed City, as well as the War in the Far East trilogy. He studied history at National Taiwan University and has been a foreign correspondent in East Asia for more than two decades. He has focused mainly on the Chinese-speaking societies but has reported from nearly every corner of the region, including Mongolia and North Korea. His books have been translated into Chinese, Danish, and Romanian. Tom Campbell hosted morning radio shows for over twenty-five years in New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Virginia, during which time he voiced comedy bits, interviewed celebrities, MC'd concerts, flew in a stunt plane, landed by helicopter on an aircraft carrier, and even joined a seance hoping to connect with Houdini. Tom brought his vocal skills to the equally exciting world of audiobook production in 2017, and he's narrated over fifty audiobooks, including the Devolution series by John Casey (books reviewed by the CIA!); Conrad's Honor by Alex Ryan; the seven-book Linear Tactical series by Janie Crouch; the Lunatic City series by T. Allen Diaz; thrillers by Mike McCrary, and many more. Tom possesses a deep, rich baritone, ideally suited for the sarcastic detective, the clandestine spy, the romantic lover, the wandering cowboy, or the military commander. Whether it's mystery, romance, political thriller, multi-character, autobiography, or nonfiction, Tom loves giving voice to the printed word. Tom Campbell hosted morning radio shows for over twenty-five years in New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Virginia, during which time he voiced comedy bits, interviewed celebrities, MC'd concerts, flew in a stunt plane, landed by helicopter on an aircraft carrier, and even joined a seance hoping to connect with Houdini. Tom brought his vocal skills to the equally exciting world of audiobook production in 2017, and he's narrated over fifty audiobooks, including the Devolution series by John Casey (books reviewed by the CIA!); Conrad's Honor by Alex Ryan; the seven-book Linear Tactical series by Janie Crouch; the Lunatic City series by T. Allen Diaz; thrillers by Mike McCrary, and many more. Tom possesses a deep, rich baritone, ideally suited for the sarcastic detective, the clandestine spy, the romantic lover, the wandering cowboy, or the military commander. Whether it's mystery, romance, political thriller, multi-character, autobiography, or nonfiction, Tom loves giving voice to the printed word.
