"The Rape of Nanking" by Iris Chang

"Maps can really point to places where life is evil now: Nanking; Dachau." History is based on perspective. World War II started on December 7, 1941, the Japanese Imperial Army attacked Pearl Harbor. Europeans go back a couple years to September 1, 1939, when Germany attacked Poland. Africans see it earlier on the invasion of Ethiopia in 1935. However, Asians trace the beginnings of the war way back during the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931. Hitler and Germany use a train of thought that they are the superior race and use this to rule their neighbors. The Japanese use this also. The fourteen years of military dominance of China by the Japanese were in no doubt, marked by countless incidents of ruthlessness. This is a story of one of these incidents.
On December 7, as the Japanese troops marched their way into the Capital of China, the Japanese General Matsui grew increasingly ill. …