Tanggal 13 Desember 1937. Nanking jatuh ke tangan bala tentara Jepang dalam suatu invasi besar-besaran untuk menganeksasi Cina. IMTFE (International Military Tribunal of The Far East) mengestimasi sebanyak 260.000 penduduk sipil tewas di Nanking. Buku ini ditulis dalam tiga sudut pandang: para tentara Jepang, orang-orang Cina sendiri, dan beberapa orang barat yang mendirikan zona aman di Nanking.
In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered—a death toll exceeding that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Using extensive interviews with survivors and newly discovered documents, Iris Chang has written the definitive history o…