I have read the book titled "The Rape of Nanking". This book is appropriately titled due to the
             subject matter it covers. It covers an incident during World War II known as "The Rape of
             Nanking". The book was written by Iris Chang and is two hundred and thirty pages long with an
             additional twenty four pages of pictures.
             The Rape of Nanking was an incident that occurred in December of 1937. Nanking at this
             time was the capital city of Nationalist China. During this incident Japanese soldiers raped,
             tortured, and killed Chinese soldiers and civilians totaling nearly three hundred thousand people.
             The official date that is credited to the day when "Nanking fell" is December 13, 1937. The
             Chinese government was forced to regroup elsewhere as the Japanese controlled this city until
             the war ended eight years later in 1945.
             Nanking wasn't the only part of China the Japanese controlled. It was where the worst
             atrocities took place and where the Chinese people were hurt the most. It all started with Japan
             taking the city of Manchuria. Quickly to be taken over after that were Chahar, Hopeh, Peking,
             Tiensin, Shangai, and then Nanking. The reasons for the Japanese attempt to takeover China
             were Japan had its own master race theory and they wanted to rule Asia.
             The reasons Nanking is remembered are the massive amounts of deaths in a short period
             of time and the manners in which these deaths and brutalities were committed. Statistics show
             that Certain countries had less civilian casualties in the entire war then the city of Nanking had in
             a few weeks. For example: Great Britain(61,000 civilian casualties), France(108,000 civilian
             casualties), and Belgium(242,000 civilian casualties). Some of the atrocities included thousands
             of men being dragged out to fields to be used as machine gun practice targets, people being
             buried alive, husbands being forced to rape their wive...