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Excellent ending!

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Excellent ghost story! I read the essay at the end as well.

The Rape of Nanking is so horrific. There was a writer named William Manchester, who’s sort of fallen out of favor these days, but he wrote several really good histories back in the 1970s and 1980s, including a series on Winston Churchill called “The Last Lion”. He was a Marine in the Pacific theater during WWII and in one of his books, which I can’t remember the title of now because I read it over 20 years ago, he devoted several pages to a rather thorough and graphic exposition of the event--maybe in his biography of General MacArthur, which was called “American Caesar”.

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