The Rape Of Nanking : The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chang, Iris.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chang, Iris.

Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China)--History--20th century.

Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937.

Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China).

Local Subjects:

Chang, Iris.

Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China)--History--20th century.

Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, ©1997.

Summary:

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 denied by the Japanese government.Based on extensive interviews with survivors and newly discovered documents in four different languages (many never

Contents:

Contents; Foreword by William C. Kirby; Introduction; Part I; 1 The Path to Nanking; 2 Six Weeks of Terror; 3 The Fall of Nanking; 4 Six Weeks of Horror; 5 The Nanking Safety Zone; Part II; 6 What the World Knew; 7 The Occupation of Nanking; 8 Judgment Day; 9 The Fate of the Survivors; 10 The Forgotten Holocaust: A Second Rape; Epilogue; Epilogue for the 2011 Edition; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780465028252

1-281-86137-5

9780786727605

0-465-02825-X

0-7867-4372-7

OCLC:

658222168