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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
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Artikel-Nr:
9780786129423
Veröffentl:
2004
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.11.2004
Seiten:
0
Autor:
Iris Chang
Gewicht:
218 g
Format:
148x133x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Iris Chang was a journalism graduate of the University of Illinoisat Urbana, and she worked as a reporter for the Associated Press and the Chicago Tribune before winning a graduate fellowship to the writing seminars program at Johns Hopkins University. Her first book, Thread of the Silkworm, the story of Tsien Hsue-shen, father of the People's Republic of China missile program, received worldwide critical acclaim. She was the recipient of the John T. and Catherine D. MacArthur Foundation's Program on Peace and International Cooperation Award and major grants from the National Science Foundation, the Pacific Cultural Foundation, and the Harry Truman Library.
In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred. The Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking and within weeks not only looted and burned the defenseless city but systematically raped, tortured and murdered more than 300,000 Chinese civilians. Amazingly, the story of this atrocity-one of the worst in world history-continues to be denied by the Japanese government. Nien Cheng, author of Life and Death in Shanghai ??A gripping account that holds the reader's attention from beginning to end?