subject matter it covers. It covers an incident during World War II known as "The Rape of

Nanking". The book was written by Iris Chang and is two hundred and thirty pages long with an

additional twenty four pages of pictures.

The Rape of Nanking was an incident that occurred in December of 1937. Nanking at this

time was the capital city of Nationalist China. During this incident Japanese soldiers raped,

tortured, and killed Chinese soldiers and civilians totaling nearly three hundred thousand people.

The official date that is credited to the day when "Nanking fell" is December 13, 1937. The

Chinese government was forced to regroup elsewhere as the Japanese controlled this city until

the war ended eight years later in 1945.

Nanking wasn't the only part of China the Japanese controlled. It was where the worst

atrocities took place and where the Chinese people were hurt the most. It all started with Japan

taking the city of Manchuria. Quickly to be taken over after that were Chahar, Hopeh, Peking,

Tiensin, Shangai, and then Nanking. The reasons for the Japanese attempt to takeover China

were Japan had its own master race t

Forgotten Holocaust of World War II". Most Chinese people still have strong feelings toward the

most died from being gang raped and others died from torture. Even after raping the females the

innocent civilians and cultural relics in the city was to capitulate." They also contained a message

Between 20,000 and 80,000 females were rapped. There was no place that rapes didn't

of men being dragged out to fields to be used as machine gun practice targets, people being

reading "the Japanese would be harsh and relentless to those who resist, but kind and generous to

increasing alot faster then they could be fed. The maximum amount of food that could be grown

made it seem as Nanking would be easy to takeover. The people however new that the invasion

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