The rape of Nanking : the forgotten holocaust of World War II / Iris Chang.
Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 1998Copyright date: ©1997Description: xi, 290 pages, [22] pages of plates : illustrations, 1 map, portraits ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- General
- 9780140277449 (pbk.) :
- 0140277447 (pbk.)
- 0465068359 (CASED)
- 9780465068357 (CASED)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- Judgment day -- The fate of the survivors -- The forgotten Holocaust: a second rape.
Relates an account of the 1937 massacre of 250,000 Chinese civilians in Nanking by the invading Japanese military, a carnage for which the Japanese government has never admitted responsibility.