They were in Nanjing : the Nanjing Massacre witnessed by American and British nationals

This book presents a detailed research study and in-depth analysis of the incident from the perspective of neutral countries' residents and diplomatic officials. The focus is placed on how those American and British citizens had experienced the incident and their reactions toward it. The Nanjing Massacre, which took place after the Japanese attacked and captured Nanjing in December 1937, shocked the world with the magnitude of its atrocities. With newly uncovered eye-witness material left behind by American and British journalists, missionaries, and diplomats, They Were in Nanjing takes the readers back in time to revisit the event and live through those horror-filled days. The first-hand accounts range from English media reports, personal records, missionary and Christian organization documents, to American and British diplomatic and military documents. The research yields new discoveries and presents issues that have previously not been adequately dealt with, for instance, Japanese attacks on American citizens, and losses and damage to American and British properties as a result of Japanese atrocities. No other book on the Nanjing Massacre presents the first-hand foreign perspective so thoroughly or consistently. "Using newly uncovered eye-witness material left behind by American and British journalists, missionaries, and diplomats, this book revisits the horror-filled days following the Japanese capture of Nanjing in December 1937."