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

Door Iris Chang

Categorie	WO II
Boeknummer	#390573-ZE25
Titel	The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Auteur	Chang, Iris
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Basic Books
Jaar van uitgave	1997
ISBN10	0465068359
ISBN13	9780465068357
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original red boards, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	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. The New York Times bestselling account of one of history's most brutal—and forgotten—massacres, when the Japanese army destroyed China's capital city on the eve of World War II, “piecing together the abundant eyewitness reports into an undeniable tapestry of horror” (Adam Hochschild, Salon) In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered—a death toll exceeding that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Historia... (Lees verder)n Iris Chang tells the story from three perspectives: that of the Japanese soldiers, that of the Chinese, and that of a group of Westerners who refused to abandon the city and created a safety zone that saved almost 300,000 Chinese. More than just narrating the details of an orgy of violence, in The Rape of Nanking Chang analyzes the militaristic culture that fostered in the Japanese soldiers a total disregard for human life. It also tells of the concerted effort during the Cold War on the part of the West and even China to stifle open discussion of this atrocity. Drawing on extensive interviews with survivors and documents brought to light for the first time, Iris Chang's classic is the definitive history of this horrifying episode.
Pagina's	290
Conditie	Goed — Name and year on title page.
Prijs	€ 12,50

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