The rape of Nanking : the forgotten holocaust of World War II

Chang, Iris, author.

Book 1997

In December 1937, in what was then the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred. The Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking (Nanjing) and within weeks not only looted and burned the defenseless city but systematically raped, tortured, and murdered more than 300,000 Chinese civilians. Amazingly, the story of this atrocity - one of the worst in world history - continues to be...

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Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937

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ISBN:

9780465068357
0465068359
0140277447

Edition:

First edition

Description:

xi, 290 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Target Audience Note:

1280 Lexile

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-283) and index

Contents:

The path to Nanking
Six weeks of terror
The fall of Nanking
Six weeks of horror
The Nanking safety zone
What the world knew
The occupation of Nanking
Judgement day
The fate of the survivors
The forgotten Holocaust: a second rape

LCCN:

97024137

Control Number:

67920

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