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。

Author's Foreword
Chapter One My Father's Childhood
From a Favorite Child to an Orphan
A Teenager Supporting a Family
My Father's Sister Died of Typhus
Chapter Two My Young Father
Origin of the Name of CHANG Zhiqiang
Two Unfamiliar Words: Paternal Grandparents
Love Missed and Our Siblings' Regret
A Talented, Mild yet Stern Father
Chapter Three My Aged Father
My Father Broke His Silence
My Father Participates in Social Activities
Ms. Matsuoka Tamaki, a Japanese Friend that My Father Respects
My Father and the Book Nanjing Never Cries by ZHENG Hong
Survivors, Their Descendants and People Who Care for the Survivors
Chapter Four My Father in Nineties
My Father Now
I Record My Father's Remaining Years with Meipian
Friendship between My Father and Professor ZHANG Yubiao
My Father's Influence on Japanese College Students
Mental Dialogue between My Father and a College Student
Postscript
Appendix

《南京大屠杀幸存者常志强的生活史》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。
本书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。

本书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。
本书讲述了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，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。通过常志强在家庭生活中的一个个平凡生动的小故事，向读者展现南京大屠杀幸存者的日常和精神生活史。