American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking: The Courage of Minnie Vautrin

ISBN-13: 9780809323869 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 232 str.

Hua-Ling Hu; Paul Simon

Opis

The Japanese army's brutal occupation of the city of Nanking during the 1937 Sino-Japanese War is known, for good reason, as the rape of Nanking. As they slaughtered an estimated 300,000 people, the invading soldiers raped more than 20,000 women - some estimates run as high as 80,000. Hua-ling Hu presents here the amazing untold story of the American missionary Minnie Vautrin, whose unswerving defiance of the Japanese protected the lives of 10,000 Chinese women and children - at the eventual cost of her own - and made her a legend among the Chinese people she served.