To the hundreds of thousands of victims in the Rape of Nanking PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Books Ltd, 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5TZ, England Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2 Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd, 182-190 Wairau Road, Auckland 10, New Zealand Penguin India, 210 Chiranjiv Tower, 43 Nehru Place, New Delhi 11009, India Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England First published in the United States of America by BasicBooks, a subsidiary of Perseus Books, L.L.C. 1997 Published in Penguin Books 1998 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 Copyright © Iris Chang, 1997 All rights reserved THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGUED THE HARDCOVER AS FOLLOWS: Chang, Iris. The rape of Nanking: the forgotten holocaust of World War II / Iris Chang. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-465-06835-9 (hc.) ISBN 0 14 02.7744 7 (pbk.) 1. Nanking Massacre, Nan-ching shih, China, 1937. 2. Nan-ching shih ( China)-- History. 1. Title. DS796.N2C44 1997 951.04′2--DC21 97-24137 Printed in the United States of America Set in Giovanni Book Designed by Elliott Beard Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or other- wise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition in- cluding this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. -iv- |