Himmler's Crusade
Pod Edition with New Isbn
$53.46
- Paperback
592 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2010
Summary
In 1938, on the eve of war, a Nazi expedition set out through British India on a mission sponsored by Himmler himself. Its aim was to trace the origins of the Aryan race, high in the sacred mountains of Tibet. The expedition was led by two complex individuals - Ernst Schäfer, a swashbuckling, gun-toting naturalist for whom Nazism promised a short-cut to personal glory, and Bruno Beger, an anthropologist whose racial theories were taken to their logical conclusion in Auschwitz.
Schäfer…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780553824278 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0553824279 |
| Author: | Christopher Hale |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bantam Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 592 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2010 |
| Weight: | 436g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
‘An extraordinary and well-told tale of mountains, myths and mass-murder’
”‘An extraordinary and well-told tale of mountains, myths and mass-murder’” “‘His research is prodigious and chilling… a wide-ranging book which offers a warning about the dangers of alternative history’” Sunday Telegraph “‘A stunning digest of the expedition to uncover the beginnings of the Aryan people’” Good Book Guide “‘Hale’s fascinating and thoughtful book grips from the start…a thought-provoking and important addition to the history of the twentieth century’” Yorkshire Post “‘Gripping and well-researched…Hale is to be commended’” The Sunday Times
Christopher Hale
Christopher Hale is an award-winning writer and producer. He was educated at Sussex University and the Slade School of Fine Art. He has made numerous films about the sciences and arts for all the major broadcasters, including the BBC. He has filmed and travelled in unmapped regions of Mozambique and the Yemen in search of a ‘lost tribe of Israel’, as well as in previously unexplored parts of Borneo and on one of the remotest islands in the Pacific. He lives in London and Berlin.
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