By far the most painful book I have ever read and yet a book that should be READ, passed on, READ, passed on, READ and passed on and ON so that new generations of people learn what those forever silent can't relate to their loved ones because they themselves have been Massacred I came across this b...
The "Rape of Nanking" refers to the astounding atrocities committed by invading Japanese soldiers during the first several weeks of their occupation of Nanking, then China's capital, slaughtering perhaps half the city's population. From 250 to 350 thousand non-combatants killed and 20 to 80 thousand...
Beginning in 1937 and continuing until 1945, Japan controlled the capital city of Nationalist China, Nanking. They had already conquered Shanghai. This military effort was part of their ongoing design to conquer Asia. Their barbarism has largely remained unknown because of political efforts to silen...
2013 April 14I've been not grabbing this off my bedside table for weeks now. Last night I managed to read the photo captions, but I had to put it aside after that. It is easier to read stories of atrocities when there is some hope of some kind of happier ending. Maybe I'll get back to it someday, bu...
Wrenching and unforgettable, Chang's work is rightly considered a classic. I appreciate how she situated herself and her family's history in relation to the broader account of the war.
ETA: There is much more in this book than the simple listing of atrocities committed. How came it to be that the Japanese soldiers lost all natural sense of right and wrong? Why did the world look away? Why has punishment never been allotted? What can be done to prevent this from happening again? Al...
I think it's said that why some books become sensations and other do not have a strong degree of chance, and so it must seem that Iris Chang's 1997 work is a case of "perfect timing", sweeping through academia right when the "alternative story" of the Pacific War was ready to be said. based on liter...
This book is about the astonishingly violent Japanese occupation of the Chinese city of Nanking during World War II. I have to say that I didn’t exactly enjoy reading this book, though I do think that the topic is an important one. Chang’s book is divided into three sections: the first describes the...
A truly heartrending read. The book permeates evil perhaps in ways that transcend even the most poignant memoirs of the Holocaust. The randomness of the whole Japanese occupation of Nanking is what makes this account so frightening. This book is simply too important to pass up and should be requi...
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