| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 367 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Cover; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Editors Introduction; Translators Note; Authors Preface to U.S. Edition; 1. "One Million Japanese Troops Land North of Hangzhou Bay"; 2. "More of Our Troops Land at Shanghai"; 3. "The City of Suzhou Has Finally Fallen"; 4. "The Imperial Army Occupies Wuxi"; 5. "The Rising Sun Flag Over the City Walls of Changzhou"; 6. "Seizing Jurong, We Charge Onward"; 7. "Zhenjiang Occupied"; 8. "The Contest to Cut Down a Hundred Goes Over the Top"; 9. "The Imperial Forces Make an All-Out Charge on Nanjing." |
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10. "A War of Annihilation Unfolds"11. "Nanjing, Where Peace Has Been Restored"; Afterword to the Original Edition; Afterword to the Original Paperback Edition; Commentary; Appendix; Editor's Note; Excerpt from Chugoku no Tabi; Excerpt from Chapter 4 of Nankin Daigyakusatsu: "Hot Pursuit of the Defeated Enemy at Jiaxing"; Excerpt from Chapter 8 of Nankin Daigyakusatsu: "A Mad Rush into the City of Huzhou"; Excerpts from Chapter 9 of Nankin Daigyakusatsu: "We've Taken Changxing ... and Guangde ... and Wuhu." |
| Summary |
This book is based on four visits to China between 1971 and 1989 by Honda Katsuichi, an investigative journalist for Asahi Shimbun. His aim is to show in pitiless detail the horrors of the Japanese Army's seizure and capture of Nanjing in December 1937. Unvarnished accounts of the testimony - Chinese victims and Japanese perpetrators - to the rape and slaughter are juxtaposed with public relations announcements of the Japanese Army as printed in various Japanese newspapers of the time. The bland announcements of triumphant victories stand in bitter contrast to the atrocities that actually took |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Atrocities.
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Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
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Atrocities
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Berichtgeving.
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Massamoorden.
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Guerre sino-japonaise (1937-1945) -- Atrocités.
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Atrocités -- Chine -- Nankin.
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| SUBJECT |
Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China) -- History
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| Subject |
China -- Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng)
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Nankin (Chine) -- Histoire.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gibney, Frank, 1924-2006.
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| LC no. |
98040563 |
| ISBN |
9781317455660 |
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1317455665 |
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9781317455653 |
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1317455657 |
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