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For the tragic history of Izmir/Smyrna, see Margorie Housepian Dobkin, Smyran 1922: The Destruction of a City (1972).
The number of Palestinian refugees massacred at Sabra and Shatila in 1982 is disputed. Between six hundred and eight hundred bodies were recovered; another eighteen hundred civilians were reported missing and never found. Most are believed to lie buried in mass graves, many of them beneath Beirut’s Cité Sportif. See “Sabra and Shatila 20 Years On,” BBC News, 14 September 2002, and Leila Shahid, “The Sabra and Shatila Massacres: Eye-Witness Reports,” Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 32, No. 1. (Autumn 2002). You can also watch the eyewitness account of British journalist Robert Fisk in The Martyrs Smile, Part Two, at www.you-tube.com/watch? v=_JAmZCLhaoQ&NR=1, although be warned that the images are gruesome.
Historians continue to argue over the true extent of the German atomic program during World War II. Recent discoveries in Russian archives and what was East Germany are much as Wolfgang describes them in Chapters 42–43, and have made many earlier studies out of date. See Mark Walker, Nazi Science: Myth, Truth, and the German Atomic Bomb (2005), and Hitlers Bombe, by Rainer Karlsch and Heiko Petermann (2007).
Much has been written about the Nazi concentration camps and medical experiments. See Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans, by Vivien Spitz, a correspondent at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (republished 2005), and Harold Marcuse, Legacies of Dachau: The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp, 1933–2001 (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
For the Dachau Massacre of German prisoners of war by the U.S. 3rd Battalion of the 157th Infantry Regiment, see Colonel Howard Buechner’s The Hour of the Avenger (1986). Again, the numbers vary, from fifteen to more than six hundred; Eisenhower is said to have put the number of German prisoners murdered at around five hundred.
Politics has turned the subject of the ethnic origins of modern Jews into a potential mine field. For two opposing views, see Tel Aviv University historian and Holocaust survivor Shlomo Sand’s book, Matai ve’ech humtza ha’am hayehudi? (When and How the Jewish People Was Invented, 2008, in Hebrew), versus the article “The Khazar Myth and the New Anti-Semitism” by Steven Plaut, an American-born economics professor at the University of Haifa. For a history of the Khazars, Kevin Alan Brook’s The Jews of Khazaria (republished 2006), is considered a classic. For more on the Arab Christians, see Charles Sennott, The Body and the Blood: The Middle East’s Vanishing Christians and the Possibility for Peace (2002).
Operation Paperclip was a very real program that brought German scientists to the United States at the end of WWII to work on various projects for the government, from NASA to the CIA. Not all were Nazis. Those who were Nazis were brought in illegally and without the knowledge of either Truman or Eisenhower. See Clare Lasby’s Operation Paperclip (1975), and Christopher Simpson’s Blowback: America’s Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War (1988).
For a look at American black ops, see Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes (2007). For American operations run against Cuba from Florida, see Don Bohning, The Castro Obessession: U.S. Covert Operations Against Cuba (2005). On U.S. biological and chemical warfare projects, see Seymour Hersh, Chemical and Biological Warfare: America’s Hidden Arsenal (1969), and William Broad, Stephen Engelberg, and Judith Miller, Germs: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War (2001). On modern ethnic biowarfare, see the British Medical Association Report, Biotechnology, Weapons, and Humanity (1999); the article reported in the London Sunday Times by Uzi Mahnaimi and Marie Colvin, “Israel Planning ‘ethnic bomb’ (November 1998); and “Lethal Legacy: Bioweapons for Sale,” an article by Joby Warrick and John Mintz in the Sunday, April 20, 2003 Washington Post on the sale of apartheid-era South African manmade pathogens to the private sector.
The “People of the Book Conference” draws upon various references in the Qur’an, where Christians and Jews are referred to as “People of the Book,” i.e., those who have received and believe previous revelations of God’s prophets, including the Jewish Torah, the Book of Psalms, and the Four Christian Gospels. In Islam, the Qur’an is seen as the completion of these earlier scriptures. See, for instance, “Surely those who believe, and those who are Jews, and Christians, and the Sabians—whoever believes in God and the Last Day and does good, they shall have their reward from the Lord. And that will be no fear for them, nor shall they grieve.” (Qur’an 2:62, 5:69, and many others) In Judaism, “People of the Book” tends to be applied specifically to the Jewish people and the Torah.
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C.S. GRAHAM is the pseudonym of writing team Steven Harris and Candice Proctor. Steven Harris spent twenty-one years as an Army Intelligence officer. His career ranged from participation in the Army’s controversial domestic spying activities to running agents in Southeast Asia. He also spent ten years in Washington, D.C., working at the national intelligence level. Candice Proctor is the author of more than a dozen previous novels, including the critically acclaimed Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series published under the name C.S. Harris. A former academic with a Ph.D. in history, she has lived most of her life abroad, in Europe, the Middle East, and Australia. Visit their website at www.csgrahambooks.com.
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By C.S. Graham
THE ARCHANGEL PROJECT
THE SOLOMON EFFECT
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