Fill in the banks to complete the following paragraphs according to your own understanding. This book (The Rape of Nanking) describes related but discrete . One is the Rape of Nanking itself, the story of how the Japanese wiped out hundreds of thousands of civilians in its enemy’s capital. Another is the cover-up, the story of how the Japanese, emboldened by the silence of the Chinese and Americans, tried to the entire massacre from public consciousness, thereby its victims of their proper place in history. The Rape of Nanking is told from different perspectives. The first is the perspective. It is the story of a planned invasion—what the Japanese military was told to do, how to do it, and why. The second perspective is that of the , the victims; this is the story of the fate of a city when the government is no longer capable of protecting its citizens against outside invaders. This section includes individual stories from the Chinese themselves, stories of defeat, despair, betrayal, and survival. The third is the perspective. These outsiders were, for one moment at least in Chinese history, heroes. The handful of Westerners on the scene risked their lives to help Chinese civilians during the massacre and to warn the rest of the world about the atrocities being carried out before their very eyes.