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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458090703321

Autore

Chang Iris

Titolo

The Rape Of Nanking [[electronic resource] ] : The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Basic Books, 2012

ISBN

1-281-86137-5

9786613792105

0-465-02825-X

0-7867-4372-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Disciplina

951.042

Soggetti

Chang, Iris

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

Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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