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HTML:The New York Times bestselling account of one of history's most brutal â?? and forgotten â?? massacres, when the Japanese army destroyed China's capital city on the eve of World War II In December 1937, one of the most horrific atrocities in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred. The Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking (what was then the capital of China), and within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered. In this seminal work, Iris Chang, whose own grandparents barely escaped the massacre, tells this history from three perspectives: that of the Japanese soldiers, that of the Chinese, and that of a group of Westerners who refused to abandon the city and created a safety zone, which saved almost 300,000 Chinese. Drawing on extensive interviews with survivors and documents brought to light for the first time, Iris Chang's classic book is the definitive history of this horrifying episode. "Chang vividly, methodically, records what happened, piecing together the abundant eyewitness reports into an undeniable tapestry of horror." - Adam Hochschild, Salon… (más)
There are several important lessons to be learned from Nanking, and one is that civilization itself is tissue-thin.
Apparently some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided only that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat.
These long-overdue steps are crucial for Japan if it expects to deserve respect from the international community--and to achieve closure on a dark chapter that stained its history.
History.
Military.
Nonfiction.
HTML:The New York Times bestselling account of one of history's most brutal â?? and forgotten â?? massacres, when the Japanese army destroyed China's capital city on the eve of World War II In December 1937, one of the most horrific atrocities in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred. The Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking (what was then the capital of China), and within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered. In this seminal work, Iris Chang, whose own grandparents barely escaped the massacre, tells this history from three perspectives: that of the Japanese soldiers, that of the Chinese, and that of a group of Westerners who refused to abandon the city and created a safety zone, which saved almost 300,000 Chinese. Drawing on extensive interviews with survivors and documents brought to light for the first time, Iris Chang's classic book is the definitive history of this horrifying episode. "Chang vividly, methodically, records what happened, piecing together the abundant eyewitness reports into an undeniable tapestry of horror." - Adam Hochschild, Salon
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Sorprendentemente, esta atrocidad, una de las peores en la historia de la humanidad, sigue siendo negada por el Gobierno japonés. Pese a que el número total de muertos en Nanking supera el de varios paÃses europeos enteros, e incluso el de las explosiones atómicas de Hiroshima y Nagasaki, la Guerra FrÃa condujo a reprimir toda discusión sobre el asunto. Para Chang, esta conspiración de silencio, que persiste hasta hoy, constituye una «segunda violación». (Reseña de la editorial)