Set in 1939 during the Japanese siege of China--a cataclysmic eight-year massacre mission in which at least 23 million Chinese died--Red Angel tells the story of Nurse Nishi, as she is introduced to maniacal, primitive combat medicine and its human fallout. At her first posting, Nishi is raped by recovering soldiers, but her complaints to the head nurse fall on deaf ears. Stationed next in a nightmarish field hospital that does little more than perform...