Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang

67 reviews

ntawn0's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cannibalism, Colonisation, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

nota_candycaine's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

Be prepared for gory violence, sexual trauma and assault, genocide denial, and upsetting imagery. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Child death, War, Violence, Suicide, Rape, Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Gun violence, Genocide, Death, Cursing, Colonisation, Cannibalism, and Body horror

elliej's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

5.0

Chang's book is part of the history of WWII we are never told. It is a passionate historical recording of a monstrous event.

I read the 2011 edition, and honestly could have done without most of Chang's husband's epilogue. Not a fan of the pages of him telling an audience of people not intimately involved in Chang's life, her actions and the in-depth questioning of her mental illness. It is critically important to highlight mental health, but he should have stopped at the questioning and allowed the communal grief of her death. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Murder, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

alisbookclub's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Genocide, Gore, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, and War

fe_lea's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

It feels wrong to say I enjoyed this book because the subject matter itself was definitely not enjoyable. But as soon as I started reading, it was difficult to put this book down. It was very eye-opening, well researched, and well written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, War, and Violence

patrick_ryan's review against another edition

dark informative

4.0

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This is the horrifying story of the Japanese massacre of Nanjing. It also talks about how this massacre has been allowed to almost disappear from history. To me, the fact that this is ignored in history class is in itself s tragedy. It's like if we also didn't teach about concentration camps or the atomic bombs.  I can't think of another event in human history that is as cruel as the rape of Nanjing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Rape, and Violence

rosie135790's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Child abuse, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Slavery, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Torture, and Violence