The New York Times bestselling account of one of history's most brutal- and forgotten-
massacres when the Japanese army destroyed China's capital city on the eve of World War II. 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.
