Christopher Hale (writer)
Christopher Hale is a British writer and documentary producer.
He was educated at the University of Sussex and Slade School of Fine Art - and began his television career as a film editor. He made some apprentice films at the BBC, including a One Pair of Eyes called Nationality Uncertain - and was offered the opportunity to make a major documentary for Channel 4 called Is there Anybody There, with the psychologist Nicholas Humphrey. He has since made some series and many one off programmes, including Search for the Sons of Abraham. Hale won a Special Award from the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS).
Hale has made a number of Horizon science documentaries for the BBC, including the notorious Atlantis Reborn.
Hale is a Contributor to Archaeological Fantasies published in 2006 by Routledge.
In 2002, Hale was commissioned by Bantam Books to write a book AbOUT an SS-sponsored expedition to Tibet. Research in archives in the UK and Germany, as well as visits to India and Tibet. led to Himmler's Crusade. Hale has featured in a Secret History for Channel 4 and ZDF.
Hale is now researching and writing [...]'s Foreign Executioners for Harper Collins.
Bibliography
- Hale, Christopher. Himmler's Crusade : the true story of the 1938 [...] expedition into Tibet / Christopher Hale. London : Bantam, 2003. xiv, 422 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-593-04952-7
- Hale, Christopher. Himmler’s crusade : the [...] expedition to find the origins of the Aryan race / Christopher Hale. Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley, c2003. x, 422 p., [26] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. ISBN 0-471-26292-7 (alk. paper)
References
- Review of Himmler's Crusade in The Daily Telegraph: The master race in the mountains
- John J. Reilly: Review of Himmler’s Crusade
- Channel 4: The [...] Expedition Mentions Himmler's Crusade as "The book on which the Channel 4 documentary was based."]
- Canada Tibet Committee: Review of Himmler's Crusade by Michael Burleigh in the Sunday Times, 3 August 3, 2003
- Charles F. Urbanowicz / August 21, 2006. Fall 2006 Anthropology 496 Guidebook and Selected Anthropology Essays. Quotes Himmler's Crusade