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Documents on the Rape of Nanking. Edited by Timothy Brook. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. ISBN 0-472-11134-5. Photographs. Notes. Index. Pp. viii, 301. $15.95.
Documents on the Rape of Nanking makes more accessible to general readers four primary sources on the 1937 atrocity in the then Chinese capital. This volume may have a muffling effect on the too emotionalized and politicized environment surrounding the controversy over this historical event since the publication of Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking.
The four documents selected for this book epitomize, in a sense, the beginning and the end of the event. The Documents of the Nanking Safety Zone and "The Family Letters of Robert Wilson" are contemporary eyewitness accounts, while the majority judgment of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East...