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According to Burress, the figure of 300,000 Chinese civilians killed actually came from a message sent by a British reporter, concerning deaths not only in Nanjing but in other places as well.Each time a chapter ended, I was excited to pick up where I left off on the last story, and I can’t say that about many novels with this type of format. Bolted by a mechanical arm to the crown of the skyscraper there was a vast cut-out of a woman sitting on a swing. After being stripped and raped by one or more men," a reporter for LIFE magazine wrote, describing the carnage that had occurred just before this photograph was taken, "she was bayoneted in the chest, and then had a bottle thrust into her vagina.

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Based on the testimony of a survivor of the massacre, Chang also describes a killing contest amongst a group of Japanese soldiers to determine who could kill the fastest.Men were assured of food, shelter and safety by Japanese soldiers, only to be lured to remote areas and used for bayonet practice or decapitation contests. She estimates that the number of women raped ranged from 20,000 to as many as 80,000, [24] and states that women from all classes were raped, including Buddhist nuns.