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A review by kenomilligan
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
5.0
I don't have enough words in my vocabulary to describe how amazing, thrilling, disturbing, and enticing this book was.
I could not put it down.
I learned about the Nanking Massacre in my World Studies class. I immediately went home that day and bought the book, which my teacher had held up for us to see.
I hate that I waited almost a full year to read it. I don't regret it at all. I could talk about this book for hours and write an entire paper about it.
The end of Chang's life was extremely unfortunate, but she has done a remarkable and a world-changing thing by writing this book. She wrote the un-writeable. She talked about what no one would. She went more than that extra mile to make sure we knew even the smallest of small details about this event.
Easily my favorite non-fiction book. Truly eye-opening.
I could not put it down.
I learned about the Nanking Massacre in my World Studies class. I immediately went home that day and bought the book, which my teacher had held up for us to see.
I hate that I waited almost a full year to read it. I don't regret it at all. I could talk about this book for hours and write an entire paper about it.
The end of Chang's life was extremely unfortunate, but she has done a remarkable and a world-changing thing by writing this book. She wrote the un-writeable. She talked about what no one would. She went more than that extra mile to make sure we knew even the smallest of small details about this event.
Easily my favorite non-fiction book. Truly eye-opening.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual assault, Torture, Murder, Rape, War, Physical abuse, and Sexual violence