The rape of Nanking : the forgotten holocaust of World War II / Iris Chang.
In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered a death toll exceeding that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Using extensive interviews with survivors and newly discovered documents, Iris Chang has written the definitive history of this horrifying episode.
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- ISBN: 9780465068364
- ISBN: 0465068367
- ISBN: 9780465028252
- ISBN: 046502825X
- Physical Description: xiii, 314 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
- Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2011.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published: 1997. With new epilogue. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-299) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword / William C. Kirby -- Introduction -- Part one (1. The path to Nanking ; 2. Six weeks of terror ; 3. The fall of Nanking ; 4. The Nanking safety zone) -- Part two (What the world knew ; 7. The occupation of Nanking ; 8. Judgment day ; 9. The fate of the survivors) -- Part three (10. The forgotten holocaust: a second rape) -- Epilogue -- Epilogue to 2011 edition. |
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Genre: | Nonfiction. History. Nonfiction. History. |
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The Rape of Nanking : The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
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The Rape of Nanking : The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
The New York Times bestselling account of one of history's most brutal- and forgotten- massacres, when the Japanese army destroyed China's capital city on the eve of World War II In December 1937, one of the most horrific atrocities in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred. The Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking (what was then the capital of China), and within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered. In this seminal work, Iris Chang, whose own grandparents barely escaped the massacre, tells this history from three perspectives: that of the Japanese soldiers, that of the Chinese, and that of a group of Westerners who refused to abandon the city and created a safety zone, which saved almost 300,000 Chinese. Drawing on extensive interviews with survivors and documents brought to light for the first time, Iris Chang's classic book is the definitive history of this horrifying episode. "Chang vividly, methodically, records what happened, piecing together the abundant eyewitness reports into an undeniable tapestry of horror." - Adam Hochschild, Salon