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Summary: Read this book and think twice.
Review: What this book did to me has a tremendous impact on my thoughts and opinions about WWII, and Japanese history in general. As a Japanese citizen, I grew up in that country for 22 years of my youth before I came to the US. We all learned in school about the Atomic Bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and their impact on today's society. We all say "as the only country of atomic-bomb victim, it is our obligation to make the truth known to the world so we will not make the same mistake again!" But what about the Rape of Nanking? I ask myself. If the incident of the Atomic Bombings is just such an important issue, why can't the Rape of Nanking?As I read this book, I often put myself into the Chinese victims' shoes, and imagined how I would have felt knowing that my family would be mass-murdered by the Japanese troops, my lover would be raped and killed, and I myself would be decapitated. I feel a great remorse toward Chinese people, and a great shame toward our culture and people. We must make the truth known to the people in Japan, and STOP SAYING THE RAPE OF NANKING IS A TOTAL FABRICATION!! I often discuss about the Rape of Nanking with American and Chinese friends of mine, and tell my family and my friends in Japan about what I read in this book, in the hope that many people in Japan read this book and have the same remorse and shame just as I did. They can still argue that it never happened or it is overly exaggerated, but before they do this, I strongly wish that they read this book and think twice before making such a statement. I highly recommend this book especially if you are a Japanese citizen.
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Summary: We should rember the past
Review: Iris Chang has written an incredible book. Well thought out and presented. The pain and horror these people suffered is almost palpable. I wepted as I read it. These autrocities can not be forgoten. I was lucky enough to attend a discusion with the author several months ago. I thank her for taking the time and effort to record what happened before all the witnesses are gone. I am glad this area of recent history is finally getting the attention it deserves.
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Summary: Educational. Japanese atrocities know no bounds.
Review: Iris Chang has done a great service for the Western World. The Rape of Nanking is only one of the horrendous atrocities committed by the Japanese during WW2. I personally suffered in a POW camp with 85% death rate. Rabaul Island POW camp had a 97% death rate. On Sado Island all the POWs were deliberately burried alive at the 400 foot level of the mine they worked. My experiences are recounted in my book "My Life With the Samurai." When Gen. Mac Arthur stopped the War Crimes investigations in 1952 he did the world a great disservice. The holocaust is kept alive and Japanese atrocities are hidden. This book should be read in every senior educational institute in the Western World.
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Summary: Very stastisically accurate ; well-documented.
Review: Ms. Chang has done both the Chinese people and the larger world a great service by retelling the stories behind this senseless atrocity. The book must be included on high school and college reading lists with at least one mandatory book report assigned on the subject per year for all undergraduates. Lastly, Chang should explore the option of taking her project onto the college lecture circuit and getting grants from Japanese companies like Honda to fund her efforts.
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Summary: A must-read for all
Review: This book is about a story that has long been ignored, namely the Rape of Nanking. The author documents with countless eyewitness accounts and horrifying photos the unimaginable cruelty inflicted upon the Chinese by the Japanese army. The book also contains the extraordinary tale of an unlikely hero, a German Nazi, who saved thousands and thousands of innocent lives. This book should be required reading for all high school students and those who are still squimish about the U.S. using the atomic bomb on Japan.
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Summary: A MUST READ FOR EVERY JAPANESE, hai!!
Review: being a Chinese, I've been told all over my young life (24) how bad the Japanese have been. I always got my eyes wet on viewing Bruce Lee's CHINESE CONNECTION (a.k.a Fist of Fury). I was kinda touched when I find a book disclosing this oft-covered(by Japanese government) truth stands high among Japanese best sellers. I hope a book like this will serve as a remainder to Japanese and Chinese alike so that things like this will never happen again here and everywhere. My only disappointment is that I don't see any Japanese book reviewers here... almost all of them are from US. come on, you got the gut to read, you gotta have the gut to write!
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Summary: This should be required reading in our universities
Review: I am amazed at how little coverage these terrible events have received in our history books and in our media. I have received the typical four year college education and have never heard of Naking. I did not previously think that anybody but the Nazis committed such horrible crimes in WWII. The book encouraged me to ponder: why are these events hidden from view while we build memorials to the victims in Europe? I am deeply ashamed to live in a world culture that holds the lives of Chinese peoples in such low regard that their suffering and pain in the war was so easily ignored. The fact that the Japanese government tries to hide this history is to some extent understandable - they are protecting their own image. But the fact that Americans and Europeans do not seem to care is just depressing. It is depressing because it tells me that, to many of us, what happened in Naking just simply does not matter. This is a very painful book to absorb - not one for c! asual reading. It is, however, one of the most powerful and important books on WWII I think - not so much because of Naking in particular, but because the very silence it (I hope) shatters tells us a lot about ourselves.
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Summary: Unbelievably engrosing and interesting.
Review: The book is indeed disturbing but tells of a time and series of events that few know about. The subsequent denial of the Japanese works to further add to the horror of the events. MUST READ
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Summary: It's all true "NANKING A STORY OF ATTROCITIES"
Review: As a child, I remember sad stories from a Catholic none who had been a missionary in China. For some reason the name Nanking stuck in my mind. This book by Iris Chang brings it all back. A true story which must be brought back to life in order to honor those who suffered attrocities committed by Japanese soldiers during World War II. This book is well written and packed with essential details, photographs and witness accounts. Reading this book finally provides the reader with a different perspective of the Japanese invasion of China.
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Summary: Good coverage of little covered story for you WWII buffs.
Review: A very good book for those interested in another perspective of WWII, that of the occupied Chinese. Ms.Chang presents a well written and well documented account of the occupation of Nanking by the Japanese Army. It can be a little graphic (to warn those sensitive ones out there), but to understand what the people of Nanking went through it must be graphic. We always hear about the war from the US, the European, and even the Japanese view. This book opens a new perspective that's worth exploring.
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