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Written by Iris Chang - Audio book narrated by Anna Fields - Unabridged Nonfiction - 1 MP3 COMPACT DISC - 9 hours

Publisher, Blackstone Audiobooks (November 2004)

"In her important new book, The Rape of Nanking, Iris Chang, whose own grandparents were survivors, recounts the grisly massacre with understandable outrage.” --New York Times Book Review, Orville Schell

”…A gripping account that holds the reader's attention from beginning to end” --Nien Cheng, author of Life and Death in Shanghai

”Anyone interested in the relation between war, self-righteousness, and the human spirit will find The Rape of Nanking of fundamental importance. It is scholarly, an exciting investigation and a work of passion.” --Ross Terrill, author of Mao, China in Our Time and Madame Mao

”… Fields keeps her narrative from overreaction, using a finely tuned ear for inflection to emphasize the worst horrors. ... Her intelligent performance makes this a remarkable and compelling experience.” --AudioFile Magazine

In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred. The Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking and within weeks not only looted and burned the defenseless city but systematically raped, tortured and murdered more than 300,000 Chinese civilians. Amazingly, the story of this atrocity-one of the worst in world history-continues to be denied by the Japanese government.

The Rape of Nanking tells the story from three perspectives: that of the Japanese soldiers who performed it; of the Chinese civilians who endured it; and finally of a group of Europeans and Americans who refused to abandon the city and were able to create a safety zone that saved almost 300,000 Chinese. It was Iris Chang who discovered the diaries of the German leader of this rescue effort, John Rabe, whom she calls the "Oskar Schindler of China." A loyal supporter of Adolf Hitler, but far from the terror planned in his Nazi-controlled homeland, he worked tirelessly to save the innocent from slaughter.