NYTimes: Vatican's statement on the Holocaust.
Robert S. Thau (rst@ai.mit.edu)
Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:24:21 -0500 (EST)
I. Find Karma writes:
> 1. Okay, the first book recommendation is marginally related. _The Rape
> of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II_, by Iris Chang.
> Rohit and I saw an interview with this Sunnyvale, CA author on Booknotes
> and she was quite articulate about the atrocities committed by the
> Japanese against the Chinese during WW2. She won the Pulitzer Prize for
> _Making of the Atom Bomb_, and she has quite a way with humanizing the
> unthinkable systematic rape and extermination of 250,000 people:
Errrrrrmmmm... Richard Rhodes won the National Book Award for "The
Making of the Atomic Bomb". It's an excellent book; his sequel, Dark
Sun, (which focuses in about equal parts on espionage, the Soviet bomb
project, American H-bomb development, and the Oppenheimer affair) is
also very, very good.
rst