THE RAPE OF NANKING

A massacre of horrific proportions took place beginning on 13 December 1937 when the Japanese army overthrew the ancient city of Nanking, China. Japanese soldiers then proceeded to rape, torture, and murder an estimated 200,000-300,000 Chinese civilians. Thousands more would likely have been slaughtered if European and American civilians working in Nanking had not created a “Safety Zone” where survivors could take shelter.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Chang, Iris. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1997. HGT,BU,CO,CP,KI,MA—951.042

Chang, Ying-Ying, and Iris Chang. The Woman Who Could Not Forget: Iris Chang Before and Beyond the Rape of Nanking. New York: Pegasus, 2011. CP,DA,SC [B—CHANG]

Fogel, Joshua A. The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. HGT—951.136

Honda, Katsuichi, Frank Gibney, and Karen E. Sandness. The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame. Armonk, N.Y: M.E. Sharpe, 1999. HGT—951.042

Kamen, Paula. Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2007. ELB [B—CHANG]

Piccigallo, Philip R. The Japanese on Trial: Allied War Crimes Operations in the East, 1945-1951. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979. ST—341.69

Rabe, John, and Erwin Wickert. The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1998. ST,DA,KI—940.5308

Tanaka, Toshiyuki. Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II. Boulder, Colo: Westview Press, 1996. ST—940.5405

Zhang, Kaiyuan. Eyewitnesses to Massacre: American Missionaries Bear Witness to Japanese Atrocities in Nanjing. Armonk, N.Y: M.E. Sharpe, 2001. CP—940.53