THE BACKGROUND OF JAPANESE EXPANSIONISM

Los Angeles 1939, Pacific Southwest Academy. Wrappers, 6p., 24 cm., P.S.A. Papers Publication 17, photo copy, A4 size, a speech delivered Dec. 7, 1938. FIRST & ONLY OBSCURE EDITION . *** **** *** . . THE TRUE STORY OF THE JAPANESE MILITARY IN NANJING . . . WRITTEN BY A MANCHESTER GUARDIAN JOURNALIST IN SHANGHAI . . . BASED ON EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNTS OF JAPANESE . . . MURDER OF CHINESE, ATROCITIES & BRUTALITY . . . ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MONOGRAPHS ON NANJING, 1937 . . *** A collection of primary writings materials from a British correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, which the Japanese censors refused to pass. . * Authentic, documented accounts of neutral eyewitnesses missionaries, businessmen & others to Japan's brutal, forced occupation and rape of Nanjing, North China. No rhetorical denunciation, the factual record from day to day and hour to hour. Documenting the hundreds of thousands executions by crazed, out of control Japanese military invaders. . * A substantial early primary report on Japanese atrocities in Nanjing . * CHAPTER HEADINGS: . 1. Nanjing's Ordeal 2. Robbery, Murder & Rape 3. Promise & Performance 4. The Nightmare continues. 5. Terror in North China 6. Cities of Dread 7. Death from the Air 8. Organized Destruction . Conclusion, Appendix: . a. Case reports covering chapters 2 & 3 b. Case reports covering chapter 5 c. Case reports covering period January 14, 1938, to . February 9, 1938 . d. Correspondence between Safety Zone Committee & Japanese . Authorities, etc. e. The Nanjing "Murder Race" f. How the Japanese reported conditions in Nanjing . . *** THE AUTHOR: Harold John TIMPERLEY [1898-1954]: He started his newspaper career in China in 1921 and reported for the Manchester Guardian from 1928, based in Beijing [1921 to 1936], Shanghai [1936 to April 1937, September 1937 to April 1938] and Nanjing [May to September 1937]. . He was an Australian journalist, known for his reporting in China in the 1930s and for authoring the book "What War Means" "JAPANESE TERROR IN CHINA" [the book we list here]. Japanese historian Hora Tomio described this book as:"A book which shocked awake Western intellectuals." . * See our website for others by Timperley. *** REFERENCES: OCLC Number:971137611 * Wikipedia article on Timperley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_John_Timperley . * .