本书以南京大屠杀亲历者、幸存者的角度，提供了这段历史的真实文献资料，具备极高的文献价值和历史价值。书中生动讲述了常志强作为南京大屠杀幸存者普通而又不平凡的一生。常志强作为一个年仅九岁的战争孤儿，在失去亲人后，如何挑起家庭的重担，如何奋发向上，成家立业；而老年的常志强，又是为何把侵华日军南京大屠杀遇难同胞纪念馆作为一个精神寄托的家；以及为了让后人铭记这段历史，如何向海内外人士讲述那段让他悲痛且刻骨铭心的史实。为世人解读南京大屠杀历史打开了一扇窗，提供了一个新的视角。
Author’s Foreword 1
Chapter One My Father’s Childhood 9
From a Favorite Child to an Orphan 13
A Teenager Supporting a Family 24
My Father’s Sister Died of Typhus 31
Chapter Two My Young Father 35
Origin of the Name of CHANG Zhiqiang 38
Two Unfamiliar Words: Paternal Grandparents 40
Love Missed and Our Siblings’ Regret 43
A Talented, Mild yet Stern Father 46
Chapter Three My Aged Father 57
My Father Broke His Silence 67
My Father Participates in So Activities 76
Ms. Matsuoka Tamaki, a Japanese Friend that My Father Respects 87
My Father and the Book Nanjing Never Cries by ZHENG Hong 92
Survivors, Their Descendants and People Who Care for the Survivors 94
Chapter Four My Father in Nineties 99
My Father Now 102
I Record My Father’s Remaining Years with Meipian 105
Friendship between My Father and Professor ZHANG Yubiao 126
My Father’s Influence on Japanese College Students 138
Mental Dialogue between My Father and a College Student 143
Postscript 149
Appendix 161
常小梅，常志强的小女儿，1960年生于南京，一位文学爱好者。她长期陪同父亲参加南京大屠杀幸存者证言活动，能以女儿的角度理解当事人的心理和情感。本书文笔细腻生动，触及人的心灵，生动诠释了南京大屠杀幸存者常志强的个人记忆。
