History - THE RAPE OF NANKING

One of the worst periods in human history is painstakingly and horrifyingly examined in "The Rape of Nanking," a historical narrative. This ground-breaking book, written by Iris Chang and first released in 1997, exposes the horrors done during the tragic Nanking Massacre that occurred in 1937–1938 as part of the Second Sino-Japanese War. "The Rape of Nanking" digs into the horrifying events that took place in Nanking, the then-capital of China, when the Imperial Japanese Army seized the city, with unflinching honesty and exhaustive study. Tens of thousands of Chinese people and unarmed troops were exposed to unimaginable acts of brutality, including rape, torture, and mass executions, as detailed in Iris Chang's exhaustive history of the period of extreme violence. Through the painstaking collection of survivors.