Nanjing Massacre Documentation Series.1--Nanjing Before the War and Japanese Air Raids

Author: Jing Shenghong et al.
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: The complete set of "The Nanjing Massacre Documentation Project" consists of 25 volumes, approximately 12 million words. The first eight published 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 invading Japanese forces, a large amount of data on the burial of victims' corpses by the Japanese army in Nanjing, diaries, letters, memories, and testimonies of Japanese officers and soldiers who invaded China, written historical materials about the Nanjing Massacre by Westerners, testimonies of Nanjing Massacre survivors, 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 National Government concerning the Nanjing Massacre, covering all aspects of the massacre's history. With irrefutable facts, it presents the historical truth of the time to the world. This volume is the \\th volume of "The Nanjing Massacre Documentation Project," and its content mainly focuses on the following two aspects:
1. The general situation of Nanjing before the war.
2. The air raids on Nanjing by Japanese aircraft.
This volume selects archival materials, newspaper reports, diaries, and memoirs of the time related to the air raids on Nanjing. The data is detailed, objective, and impartial, irrefutably proving the unforgettable history of that period, as well as the atrocities of Japanese militarism and the suffering it caused the Chinese people.