Nanjing Massacre Documentation Series.4--Diaries and Letters of American Missionaries

Author: Zhang Kaiyuan (Compiler)
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: The complete set of "The Nanjing Massacre Documentation Project" consists of 25 volumes, totaling approximately 12 million words. The first eight volumes comprehensively and systematically introduce important historical materials related to the Nanjing Massacre. The content includes historical archives of the Chinese army's fierce battles to defend the capital Nanjing against the invading Japanese forces, a large amount of data on the burial of the bodies of victims of the Nanjing Massacre by the Japanese army, diaries, letters, recollections, and testimonies of Japanese soldiers and officers who invaded China, written historical materials about the Nanjing Massacre by Westerners, testimonies of survivors of the Nanjing Massacre, historical materials from the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and the Military Court of the Chinese National Government for the Prosecution of War Criminals, as well as a large number of post-war statistical materials by the Nationalist government related to the Nanjing Massacre, covering all aspects of the massacre's history. With irrefutable facts, it presents the historical truth of the events of that time to the world. This book includes articles from ten surviving original documents, such as those written by American missionary John Rabe and H. F. Buxton, providing the most detailed records of the atrocities committed by the Japanese army during the Nanjing Massacre. The authenticity and rigor of these documents are undeniable by anyone.