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 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 Hitler's Foreign Executioners- an ambitious analysis of SS recruitment of non German police and Waffen and their part in the Nazi genocide.
Hale, Christopher. Himmler's Crusade : the true story of the 1938 Nazi 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 Nazi 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)