The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
By Iris Chang.
Description
The definitive New York Times bestselling account of one of history's most brutal--and forgotten--massacresIn December 1937, one of the most horrific massacres 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-a death toll exceeding that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. In this seminal work, Iris Chang, whose own grandparents barely escaped the massacre,...
ISBN(s)
0465068367, 9780465068364
