Originally published: 1997. With new epilogue

Foreword / William C. Kirby -- Introduction -- Part one (1. The path to Nanking ; 2. Six weeks of terror ; 3. The fall of Nanking ; 4. The Nanking safety zone) -- Part two (What the world knew ; 7. The occupation of Nanking ; 8. Judgment day ; 9. The fate of the survivors) -- Part three (10. The forgotten holocaust: a second rape) -- Epilogue -- Epilogue to 2011 edition

In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered a death toll exceeding that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Using extensive interviews with survivors and newly discovered documents, Iris Chang has written the definitive history of this horrifying episode

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