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Tag Archives: Iris Chang
It’s the birthday of “The Woman Who Wouldn’t Forget”: Iris Chang
Iris Chang’s research into the atrocities committed by the Japanese on the Chinese people – particularly Chinese women – during the “rape of Nanking” in 1937 – much of it dug out of buried archives and brought to light for … Continue reading
Posted in Books, On This Day, writers
Tagged China, Iris Chang, Japan, nonfiction, war, WWII
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Recommended Books: Non-Fiction
I have been meaning to do a Part 2 to my Recommended Books: Fiction list – put together years ago. I wanted to recommend non-fiction, from history books to biographies to essays to whatever. Here is the Non-Fiction list. I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Founding Fathers, Theatre
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Afghanistan, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alexander Hamilton, Austria, Balkan Ghosts, Balkans, baseball, Belfast, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Catherine Drinker-Bowen, Central Asia, China, Crowds and Power, Dava Sobel, David McCullough, Edmund Burke, Edvard Radzinsky, Elias Canetti, Elvis Presley, England, Federalist Papers, Founding Brothers, France, Germany, Group Theatre, Gulag Archipelago, Hitler, Hunter S. Thompson, Imperium, Ireland, Iris Chang, Isaac Newton, James Madison, Janet Malcolm, Japan, Joseph Ellis, Michael Schmidt, Miracle at Philadelphia, nonfiction, Olivia Laing, Philip Gourevitch, poetry, Primo Levi, Rasputin, Rebecca West, Red Sox, Robert Conquest, Robert Kaplan, Roman empire, Russia, Rwanda, Ryszard Kapuściński, science, Serbia, Shakespeare, Stalin, The Great Terror, The Soccer War, Tom Wolfe, true crime, Ukraine, Vincent Bugliosi, WWI, WWII, Yugoslavia
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Bookshelf Tour #8
Welcome to the Tyranny section of my bookshelves. First up: Collapse of Communism by the correspondents of The New York Times. A really interesting in-real-time book about the various gigantic events which signaled the crackup of the Soviet Union, as … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, bookshelves, Hannah Arendt, Iran, Iris Chang, Russia, Ryszard Kapuściński
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The Books: “The Rape of Nanking” (Iris Chang)
My history bookshelf. Onward. Next book on this shelf is called The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang. An absolutely tormenting book – unforgettable. I had a very very hard time getting through … Continue reading
Re-Reading The Rape of Nanking
I made the mistake of re-reading The Rape of Nanking on the train home today. Isn’t one time reading that book of horrors enough? I mean, I can’t get the images out of my mind from the first time reading … Continue reading
More Information on Iris Chang
An in-depth look at Iris Chang, author of “The Rape of Nanking” who killed herself last week. I don’t know Iris Chang, never met the woman, but I felt a strange pain in my heart when I heard she took … Continue reading
R.I.P., Iris Chang “The Woman Who Wouldn’t Forget”
I read this news this morning and felt very sad about it. Iris Chang, basically a wunderkind journalist and author, who wrote the international bestseller The Rape of Nanking (a horrific and very important book – if you haven’t read … Continue reading