THE RAPE OF NANKING THE FORGOTTEN HOLOCAUST OF WORLD WAR II by Iris Chang Ishi Press, 330 pp., £15.90, June 2012, 978 4 871 872188
Set during the Second World War, Chang's 'The Rape Of Nanking' relates the story of the attack and subjugation of the historic Chinese capital by the Imperial Japanese army. The author, a journalist of Chinese-American background whose grandparents had escaped Nanking weeks before the orgy of massacres began related their stories to their children who then passed them onto Chang. These familial narrations created a thrist in Chang to find out more about what happened to Nanking during World War II. The result of her research is the work which is the sujbect of this review.
Nanking had been the [captial] (https://www.britannica.com/event/Nanjing-Massacre) of the Nationalist Chinese from 1928 to 1937.