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

In December 1937, the Japanese military swept into the traditional metropolis of Nanking. Inside weeks, greater than 300,000 Chinese language civilians and troopers had been systematically raped, tortured, and murdered,a dying toll exceeding that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki mixed. Utilizing intensive interviews with survivors and newly found paperwork, Iris Chang has written the definitive historical past of this horrifying episode.