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American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking: The Courage of Minnie Vautrin
American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking The Courage of Minnie Vautrin Author:Hua-Ling Hu 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 three hundred thousand people, the invading soldiers raped more than twenty thousand women-some estimates run as high as eighty thousand. Hua-ling Hu presents here th... more »e amazing untold story of the American missionary Minnie Vautrin, whose unswerving defiance of the Japanese protected ten thousand Chinese women and children and made her a legend among the Chinese people she served.« less