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The forgotten holocaust of world war ii is a bestselling 1997 nonfiction book written by iris chang about the 19371938 nanking massacre, the massacre and atrocities. She was a graduate of the university of illinois at urbana and worked briefly as a reporter in chicago before winning a graduate fellowship to the writing seminar program at the johns hopkins university. Buy the ebook the rape of nanking, the forgotten holocaust of world war ii by iris chang online from australias leading online ebook store. Oct 14, 1997 the rape of nanking by iris chang is a shocking book, containing details of the most horrific atrocities imaginable, committed by the japanese army during a short period in 193738 after they captured the chinese capital nanking. It reads like a treatment for a probably inevitable cinema version of the hideous incident. Billing itself as the first englishlanguage history devoted to the japanese armys 1937 massacre in chinas capital, this slight account will by no means be the last word.
In december 1937, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred in the capital of china. In 1997 when iris chang, an independent journalist, published her book on the nanjing massacre. The main characters of this war, history story are. She is also the author of the bestselling the rape of nanking, available from penguin. Publication date 1997 topics nanking massacre, nanjing, jiangsu sheng. China has endured much hardship in its history, as iris chang shows in her ably researched the rape of nanking, a book that recounts the horrible events in that eastern chinese city under japanese occupation in the late 1930s. American journalist iris changs 1997 the rape of nanking and the work of. Chang spoke about her book the rape of nanking which recounts. The japanese army swept into nanking and not only looted and burned the defenseless city but systematically raped, tortured, and murdered half of the.
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Though the estimates vary, the general consensus is that, between 300,000 to 400,000 chinese were mercilessly murdered by the invading japanese army. The rape of nanking by iris chang is a shocking book, containing details of the most horrific atrocities imaginable, committed by the japanese army during a short period in 193738 after they captured the chinese capital nanking. As the subtitle of the book makes clear, while the atrocities committed during the holocaust by the nazis have been thoroughly and voluminously studied the same attention to detail and extensive scholarship has not been expended on the monthslong atrocities at. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. Iris shunru chang march 28, 1968 november 9, 2004 was an american journalist, author of historical books and political activist. Iris chang talked about her book, the rape of nanking.
In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, iris chang tells of a peoples search for a better life the determination of the chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange. In her book rape of nanking, iris chang asserted that the politics of the cold war encouraged chairman mao to stay relatively silent about nanjing in order to keep a. The nanjing massacre or the rape of nanjing, alternately written as the nanking massacre or the rape of nanking, was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by imperial japanese troops against the residents of nanjing nanking, then the capital of china, during the second sinojapanese war. The rape of nanking the rape of nanking audiobook, by iris chang. The new york times bestselling account of one of historys most brutal and forgotten massacres, when the japanese army destroyed chinas capital city on the eve of world war ii in december 1937, one. The good man of nanking download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 290 pages and is available in paperback format. The forgotten holocaust of world war ii is a bestselling 1997 nonfiction book written by iris chang.
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