The Woman Who Could Not Forget Iris Chang Before And Beyond The Rape Of Nanking Yingying Chang by Ying-ying Chang, Richard Rhodes (introduction), Ignatius Y. Ding (preface) 9781453217641, 1453217649 instant download after payment.

Iris Chang's bestselling book, The Rape of Nanking, forever changed the way we view the Second World War in Asia. It all began with a photo of a river choked with the bodies of hundreds of Chinese civilians that shook Iris to her core. Who were these people? Why had this happened & how could their story have been lost to history? She could not shake that image from her head. She could not forget what she had seen.

A few short years later, Chang revealed this "second Holocaust" to the world. The Japanese atrocities against the people of Nanking were so extreme that a Nazi party leader based in China actually petitioned Hitler to ask the Japanese government to stop the massacre.

But who was this woman that single-handedly swept away years of silence, secrecy & shame? -
Her mother, Ying-Ying Chang, provides an enlightened & nuanced look at her daughter, from Iris’ home-made childhood newspaper, to her early years as a journalist & later, as a promising young historian, her struggles with her son's autism & her tragic suicide.

The Woman Who Could Not Forget cements Iris’ legacy as one of the most extraordinary minds of her generation & reveals the depth & beauty of the bond between a mother & daughter.