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Nanking : Anatomy of an Atrocity

Nanking : Anatomy of an Atrocity

Nanking : Anatomy of an Atrocity
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Nanking : Anatomy of an Atrocity Hardcover - 2000

by Yamamoto, Masahiro

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Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2000. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Near Fine dust jacket. The jacket would also be FINE but for just a little surface rubbing. NO chips. NO tears. A square, tight copy. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Illustrated with maps and charts. Four appendices. Lists of chapter notes/sources. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original black boards lettered in shiny silver on the spine. From the publisher: "The Rape of Nanking, an incident that has been characterized as an Asian counterpart to the Nazi Holocaust, is a tragedy that will not soon be forgotten. Masahiro Yamamoto offers an in-depth and startling examination of the horrific massacres carried out by the Japanese in Nanking in 1937. Utilizing many unmined sources, both Chinese and Japanese, this book challenges the prevailing view that the Rape of Nanking was a deliberate, planned effort on the part of the Japanese military and concludes that it was instead a horrible but unfortunate tragedy of conventional warfare with precedents in both Eastern and Western military history. In addition, post-war events such as the war crimes trials and the impact of the Holocaust on Europe affected public opinion regarding Nanking and led to a dramatic reinterpretation of events. This is a revisionist study, in the sense that it reaches conclusions at variance with the currently accepted version of events... [The author] casts serious doubt on the idea that the Rape of Nanking was the result of an overall plan or policy to terrorize the Chinese population. No other book gives such a detailed depiction of exactly what transpired, day-by-day, in Nanking.". Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Rossiter, Richard (jacket design). 8vo. xv, 353pp.
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  • Title Nanking : Anatomy of an Atrocity
  • Author Yamamoto, Masahiro
  • Illustrator Rossiter, Richard (jacket design)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Fine condition
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Praeger, Westport, Connecticut
  • Date 2000
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 008124
  • ISBN 9780275969042 / 0275969045
  • Weight 1.56 lbs (0.71 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.94 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.39 cm)
  • Reading level 1550
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
  • Library of Congress subjects Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng,, Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China) - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99059655
  • Dewey Decimal Code 951.136

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In 1946, the Chinese prosecutor for the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) charged that Japanese troops had committed atrocities at Nanking in 1937 "to crush forever all will to resist on the part of the Chinese people."

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Citations

  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2000, Page 31

About the author

MASAHIRO YAMAMOTO is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia. His specialty is military and naval history as well as Japanese History. He also teaches Japanese language.

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