Nanjing Massacre

In December 1937, the Japanese army invaded Nanjing, the ancient capital of China. In a matter of weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers were systematically raped, tortured, and slaughtered—a death toll greater than that of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.

Zhang Chunru not only detailed the details of the Japanese army's crazy atrocities in the book, but also analyzed the disregard for human life by Japanese soldiers who grew up under the background of militaristic culture. Zhang Chunru conducted extensive interviews with survivors of the Nanjing Massacre and unearthed many important documents for the first time.

The whole book first explains why Japanese soldiers and officers are completely divorced from the basic human behavior norms, Japanese schools and textbooks instill hatred and contempt for the Chinese people in students from the psychological level, and the highly militarized education system. root cause of the massacre.

In the core chapters of this book, the author records the brutal and inhuman massacres of the Japanese army in extremely detailed and detailed way through interviews with the parties, access to archives, and on-the-spot investigation and research, and deeply reveals the brutal nature of the Japanese invading army. At the same time, the author also vividly records the heroic feats of German businessman John Rabe, American surgeon Robert Wilson, and "Nanjing Living Bodhisattva" Minnie Vautrin in the Nanjing Safety Zone to save the Chinese.

In the end, the author reveals little-known plots such as the Nanjing Massacre, Nanjing under Japanese occupation, the trial of Japanese war criminals, and the fate of the survivors, which are well known to the world.

This book is the definitive work on this horrific history.