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  • Paperback: 360 pages
  • Publisher: Basic Books; Reprint edition (January 10, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0465068367
  • ISBN-13: 978-0465068364
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1 x 8.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (909 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,643 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsA final casualty of Nanking
By Christopher Carpenter on November 13, 2004
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A few years ago, on the 4th of July, a friend of mine from high school commited suicide. He hung himself while riding a train en route to New York. I wasn't called or invited to the funeral.

A couple of years later I saw his mother at a wedding. She was obviously still deep in the process of grief. She had a vacancy in her eyes that matched the one in my soul. Somehow I allowed her to corner me and to ask me the question: why? I gave the only answer I could have; a meaningless and sympathic answer that must have been as false as it sounded.

Today on NPR I hear, "Iris Chang, the bestselling non-fiction author of the 'Rape of Nanking,' was discovered dead in a car on the side of a California highway, an apparent suicide." She shot herself.

Her friend, Ignatius Ding, says of her: "She saw all of the dark side of human history. She was so sad and frustrated to see, day in and day out, what people could do to their fellow human beings. Those images hung over her all the time. Her room was like a shrine. This is where she had lived for the last ten years ever since I have known her. She cried a lot and was so depressed about the unfortunate past. Her study was just full of maps, pictures, photos. She posted all of it on the wall to keep track of the things she was writing. This is where she lived and it was like a shadow over her life all the time."

This is something like what I said to my friend's mother. I imagine that, as this explanation of a courageous woman's death, my words were just as false.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsGreat Book
By Samantha on October 27, 2004
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I read "The Rape of Nanking:The Forgotten Holocaust of WWII" and I thought it was a great book. I didnt even know that the Japanese went to war with the Chinese, and I learned a lot about it since I have read it. Iris Chang gave so many details of the gruesome war that I couldnt believed it happened. You could just imagine how the victims felt through the authors words. How Chang found the few remaining survivors is amazing. The victims are mostly elderly and they still remember the war and can tell you the stories they went through or witnessed. The author, in my sense, justs wants people to realize that this did happen, a forgotten holocaust. For people to know about this is how it is kept prevented from happening again. I realized that when I read this book that wars like that are still going on in this world. I really enjoyed this book from every perspective. I gained so much more knowledge of what had happened some odd years ago.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA truthful account , great book
By Y. Li on November 12, 2004
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This book provides the truth that happened duing World War II. Cannot believe japanese goverment still try to deny the atrocities they made to the other Asian contries. japanese goverment even juggle the textbook and deny this massacre to their next generation. In this forum, some japanese even jump out and try to deny the facts. If you want to know who is lying, just do some research if you can. There are many evidences in China can give you the truth.
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5.0 out of 5 starsPlease do not forget this tragedy
By A Customer on August 19, 2002
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I read through the book and I think it is a very nicely written one. One minor point is that it would be nicer to note in the text the references documents in the style of academic articles. That would be easier for readers who are interested in digging into the original documents themselves. Nonetheless, I think that this book gave a very clear view of one of the saddest event ever happened in human history in a way that can be understood by general public.
I strongly disagreed with one of the reader's review for criticizing this book as "ridiculous". The reasons for my disagreement are as followed:
1. Criticizing Point:
"Iris Chang is a fourth-Generation Chinese American. She does not speak or understand any of the languages needed to examine this issue (Chinese, Japanese and German). I have concluded that all information used in this book is second-hand information, most of them is propaganda."
Disagreement:
First of all, there are a lot of first hand references written in English, as were listed in the book. In fact, one of the reasons that Nanking Massacre was known to the world was because quite a few Europeans and Americans happened to witness and documented the event. If the reviewer considered none of those documents are first-hand documents, I am not sure what the definition of "first-hand" information is. In addition, some of the documents are even reported by Japanese themselves. It is not reasonable to report something against their own country if it is not truth, especially during the war time.
Second, according to what the author stated in the book, the author is a second generation Chinese American (not a very important point here, but it implies the reviewer may not read the book clearly before jumping into conclusion).Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe story that must be told.....
By EricCinSF on November 11, 2004
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I am saddened at Iris Chang's recent death. She was truly a brilliant young historian who courageously told the story of Japanese atrocities in China during WW2. This story, up until now, received little attention in the United States. This I could never understand. Yet Ms. Chang, through her relentless research, has uncovered a gruesome and horrific part of human history and told it to the world. I am very disturbed by all the comments written on this forum by people who claim these stories are communist China (PRC) propaganda. Hardly. The Chinese in Taiwan (ROC), PRC's archenemy, share the same views on these irrefutable facts of East Asian history. I don't blame the Japanese people and others on this forum,who seem to be using this book review section as their personal blog to argue WW2 facts (some of whom have submitted multiple entries).Perhaps, they are ignorant and misinformed. Perhaps, they just can't accept that the ugliness demonstrated by the Japanese may be a part of them.
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

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Published 3 days ago by busy mom
5.0 out of 5 starsRevelation

How little I really knew of this horrible history. If we can't accept our past wrongs than we will assuredly repeat them tint and time again...

Published 7 days ago by Rick Roberson
5.0 out of 5 starsMust-read history

This story of Japan's horrific attack on Nanking in the lead-up to World War II should be read by all those interested in history and especially World War II history. Read more

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3.0 out of 5 starsLittle hard to read

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Published 1 month ago by teeka
3.0 out of 5 starsbut gets pretty repetitive; not great pacing (mostly due to the ...

Some interesting information, but gets pretty repetitive; not great pacing (mostly due to the repetition), basically just becomes a big list of atrocities.

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5.0 out of 5 starsA Memorable Book

This is a memorable book! Well-written, brutally graphic at times, it provides a fine, readable account of this horrendous event in world history that has been successfully... Read more

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5.0 out of 5 starsMy heart breaks, aches, and quakes.

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5.0 out of 5 starsToo Long Forgotten

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Published 3 months ago by Lee Williams
5.0 out of 5 starshorrible and inhuman sufferings of all the war victims should ...

I am so grateful for Iris Chang for this book. The unspeakable, horrible and inhuman sufferings of all the war victims should be remembered not only for the number of them... Read more

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