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Book SynopsisOn December 13, 1937, Japanese troops captured China's former capital, Nanjing. The events that followed became known as the Rape of Nanking, or the Nanjing Massacre, which, with its magnitude and brutality, shocked the civilized world. Mass executions, rampant raping, wholesale looting, and widespread burning went on for weeks.After the worst of the atrocities was over, three American diplomats were allowed to return to the fallen city on January 6, 1938. Three days later, British Consul Humphrey Ingelram Prideaux-Brune, Military Attaché William Alexander Lovat-Fraser, and Air Attaché J. S. Walser, along with German diplomats, arrived in Nanjing on the HMS Cricket to reopen the British Embassy. The British diplomats continuously sent out dispatches reporting local conditions before and after their arrival. These documents form a consistent and reliable record of the massacre, its aftermath, and the general social conditions in the months that followed. This book contains a collection
Trade ReviewLu’sprimary documents are a treasure trove for researchers. Furthermore, he is right to argue that the Japanese committed their worst massacres outside the walled city, beyond the view of Westerners. * Chinese Review International *
Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 The Fall of Nanjing 2 Reign of Terror 3 Conditions in the Fallen Capital 4 Violation of British Property and Interests 5 Royal Navy Reports of Proceedings 6 U.S. Naval Intelligence Reports Notes Index
