The Rape Of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II by Iris Chang, William C. Kirby

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

Iris Chang, William C. Kirby

290 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional reflective slow-paced

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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 bur...

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