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The Rape of Nanking: Separating Fact from Fiction Book

Drawing on English Chinese and Japanese sources this study challenges the prevailing view that the Rape of Nanking was a deliberate planned effort on the part of the Japanese military. It concludes that it was instead an unfortunate tragedy of conventional warfare.Read More

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    Drawing on English, Chinese and Japanese sources, this study challenges the prevailing view that the Rape of Nanking was a deliberate, planned effort on the part of ...

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    The December 1937 incident that has come to be known as the Rape of Nanking is, without doubt, a tragedy that will not soon be forgotten. While acknowledging that a tremendous loss of life occurred, this study challenges the current prevailing notion that the incident was a deliberate, planned effort on the part of the Japanese military and analyzes events to produce an accurate estimate of the scale of the atrocities. Drawing on Chinese, Japanese, and English sources, Yamamoto determines that what happened at Nanking were unfortunate atrocities of conventional war with precedents in both Eastern and Western military history. He concludes that post-war events such as the war crimes trials and the impact of the Holocaust in Europe affected public opinion regarding Nanking and led to a dramatic reinterpretation of events.

  • 0275969045
  • 9780275969042
  • Masahiro Yamamoto
  • 30 August 2000
  • Greenwood Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 368
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