While reading the book "Killing the Rising Sun", Bill O’Rielly and Martin Dugard touched on the Japanese invasion of Nanking China in 1937. After a Vietnam vet friend told me some more history, “The Rape of Nanking” was a must read.
I thought Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot had the corner market on human atrocities, but they had nothing compared to what the Japanese did at Nanking. Nearly 300,000 people raped, mutilated and murdered in a few weeks. A moral outrage of butchery of innocents and the savagery of the Japanese with indisputable evidence that went all the way up to the imperial family.
The acts described in this book are revealing and revolting. The book is an excellent read, captivating and compelling including real life heroes that saved thousands of lives. I was surprised to see this is merely a footnote in history, rarely taught in school and rarely discussed in Japan.
This book is truly a must read.
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