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by: Iris Chang  List Price: $17.95 Price: $5.00 You Save: $12.95 (72%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 951.042 EAN: 9780140868562 Edition: Abridged Format: Abridged, Audiobook ISBN: 0140868569 Label: Penguin Audio Manufacturer: Penguin Audio Number Of Items: 4 Number Of Pages: 4 Publication Date: November 01, 1998 Publisher: Penguin Audio Studio: Penguin Audio Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: 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. Nanking, she writes, served as a kind of laboratory in which Japanese soldiers were taught to slaughter unarmed, unresisting civilians, as they would later do throughout Asia. Likening their victims to insects and animals, the Japanese commanders orchestrated a campaign in which several hundred thousand--no one is sure just how many--Chinese soldiers and noncombatants alike were killed. Chang turns up an unlikely hero in German businessman John Rabe, a devoted member of the Nazi party who importuned Adolf Hitler to intervene and stop the slaughter, and who personally saved the lives of countless residents of Nanking. She also suggests that the Japanese government pay reparations and apologize for its army's horrific acts of 60 years ago. Product Description: In December 1937, the Japanese army invaded the ancient city of Nanking, systematically raping, torturing, and murdering more than 300,000 Chinese civilians. This audiobook tells the story from three perspectives: of the Japanese soldiers who performed it, of the Chinese civilians who endured it, and of a group of Europeans and Americans who refused to abandon the city and were able to create a safety zone that saved many. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - You will read it and reread it and reread it but it is all trueFrom Kenneth Ellman, ke@kennethellman.com Well what can be said. I have read this book more times than I remember over a period of many years. Published in 1997 perhaps it is no longer necessary to give another review. But some books form a bond with your mind and the author and the story become part of you. Iris Chang's story "The Rape of Nanking" is just this kind of book. What it did to the author who later committed suicide we can only imagine. You reread and reread it over many ... Read More Rating: - the Hobo PhilosopherThis is one of those oh-my-god books. I was shocked to find out at the time that I read this book, that the Japanese had been following the Nazi handbook. I don't know if it was the Nazis or the Japanese who first thought up these extermination and human experimentation techniques. They also seem to have been into the Super Race Syndrome. The Imperial Japanese Navy took on a new meaning for me. That the Japanese had treated the Chinese people in this manner is mind boggling. It does seem that as ... Read More Rating: - A must readAlthough this book is horrifying in its detail, it is a must read for anyone who wants to learn more about what happened in Asia during WWII. It is truly sad that as Americans we seem to only focus on what has happened to us and our European neighbors during the war. Rating: - An Emotive, Powerful and Well-Researched PieceI had known about this book for quite some time, but only got around to reading it recently. You need quite a bit of mental fortitude to get through such a book; it is graphic in the extreme. I stealed myself for the effort, but got quite upset by about page 80. The accounts of savagery - gang rape almost always followed by murder, dousing people with gas and setting them alight, bayoneting practice, ad infinitum - require a kind of mental detachment that may be hard to summon. But the book is much, ... Read More Rating: - From a Korean reader with Japanese friends.Reading this book reminded me about the unsightly tragedies that happened in Korea during the wartime as well. I remember my Korean grandmother telling me horrible stories of her childhood as she witnessed the people around her getting killed and bombed from the Japanese. I am surrounded by Japanese-American and native Japanese friends, and I can say with a certain fact that they are not stupid or ignorant to this history. Also, they are very keen in understanding what has transpired and ... Read More 
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