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The fascinating account of two former British colonies with a
shared past but vastly different identities today! Singapore and
Malaysia sit astride the sea lanes linking East with West--vital
choke points in the world's commerce. Since ancient times, ports
along the Silk Road of the Sea were populated by peoples from
around the globe who came here to trade and live, carried by the
steady flow of goods and the ever-present monsoon winds. Author
Christopher Hale recounts many fascinating histories of this
region, including: The ancient international trade in spices and
the seven voyages to the southern seas of the Chinese eunuch
Admiral Zheng He in the 15th century The rise of Islamic kingdoms
along rivers bordering the Straits of Malacca and the conquest of
Malacca, one of the world's largest cities, by a few hundred
Portuguese marauders in 1511 The saga of Sir Stamford Raffles,
credited with founding Singapore, and the development of tin mines
and vast rubber and oil palm plantations on the Malay Peninsula The
disastrous fall of "Fortress Singapore" to the Japanese in World
War II after only three weeks of fighting, the worst British
military defeat in history The wildly successful film Crazy Rich
Asians, set in Singapore, the highest grossing romantic comedy of
the decade A Brief History of Singapore and Malaysia tells these
and many other compelling stories about the people and events which
have shaped these nations as they developed into modern powerhouses
of international trade and tourism.
In Hitler's Foreign Executioners, Heinrich Himmler's secret master
plan for Europe is revealed: an SS empire that would have no place
for either the Nazi Party or Adolf Hitler. His astonishingly
ambitious plan depended on the recruitment of tens of thousands of
'Germanic' peoples from every corner of Europe, and even parts of
Asia, to build an 'SS Europa'. This revised and fully updated book,
researched in archives all over Europe and using first-hand
testimony, exposes Europe's dirty secret: nearly half a million
Europeans and more than a million Soviet citizens enlisted in the
armed forces of the Third Reich to fight a deadly crusade against a
mythic foe, Jewish Bolshevism. Even today, some apologists claim
that these foreign SS volunteers were merely soldiers 'like any
other' and fought a decent war against Stalin's Red Army. Historian
Christopher Hale demonstrates conclusively that these surprisingly
common views are mistaken. By taking part in Himmler's murderous
master plan, these foreign executioners hoped to prove that they
were worthy of joining his future 'SS Europa'. But as the Reich
collapsed in 1944, Himmler's monstrous scheme led to bitter
confrontations with Hitler - and to the downfall of the man once
known as 'loyal Heinrich'.
The compelling story of a trek across an exotic land– and the sinister consequences It was an SS mission led by two complex individuals– one who was using the Nazis to pursue his own ends, and one so committed to Nazism that afterward he conducted racial experiments using the skulls of prisoners at Auschwitz. Himmler’ s Crusade relates the 1938 Nazi expedition through British India to the sacred mountains of Tibet in search of the remnants of the Aryan people, the lost master race. Based on a wide range of previously unused sources, this intriguing book reveals the mission– a pet project of Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler– to be the result of both a bizarre historical fantasy and a strategy to provoke insurgency in British India. Providing rare glimpses into Himmler’ s SS stronghold, this riveting tale sheds new light on the occult component of the racial theories that obsessed Himmler and his fellow Nazis. Christopher Hale (London, UK, and New York, NY) is an award-winning writer and producer who has worked for the BBC, Discovery, WGBH, and National Geographic.
'I suppose you know who I am? I was in charge of the actions in
Germany and Poland and Czechoslovakia. I am prepared to sell you
one million Jews: Goods for blood ... Blood for goods.' These were
the chilling words uttered by one of the most notorious Nazi
bureaucrats, SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann, to a young Jewish
businessman called Joel Brand in the spring of 1944. Brand embarked
on a desperate mission to persuade the Allies to barter with
Eichmann - and failed. At the same time, the SS deported hundreds
of thousands of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau packed in
cattle trains. The majority were gassed, then incinerated. For
decades after 1945, many blamed the Allies for callously abandoning
a million Hungarian Jews to their fate. In Deception, Christopher
Hale presents a new account of the 'Brand Mission' based on
evidence in the national archives of Germany, Hungary, Britain and
the United States. Hale reveals that Eichmann's offer formed one
part of a monstrous deception designed to outwit the leaders of the
last surviving Jewish community in Europe. The deception was more
complex and - from the German point of view - more successful than
any operation mounted by the secret services of the Allied
governments.
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