Gjerg Kastrioti said:Knew it, why I've been trying to forget the terrible memory of the horros, which haunts my every waking hour ever since.
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Looking forward to seeing the story continued in "The Empire of Fu Manchu." Have to wonder if anyone is going to able to stop Pan-Asian Empire, certainly manpower is never going to be a problem for them...
I've just read through this wonderful AAR. I must say Yogi that this is a master piece of a AAR and the way you make the characters come to life is stunning. one question though, who was Skorzeny in real life?
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Dante Essex said:
Thanks Dante, I'm happy you like it. In real life, Otto Skorzeny was, just as in this story, an Austrian Nazi who took part in the Anschlüss and later joined the SS-Leibstandarte (although as a grunt/NCO, rather than battallion commander). He fought with distinction in Russia, and was later chosen to form Germany's first true special forces unit from an assortment of specialist soldiers from the paratroopers, Brandenburg-division and others. In 1943 he became widely known for rescuing Mussolini who was being kept prisioner by the Italian government which had overthrown him and made peace with the Allies. In 1944 he led his commandos during the Ardennes-offensive (battle of the Bulge) in an attempt to spread confusion behind the Allied lines. In 1945, as Hungary was on the point of going over to the Russians, he led a party that kidnapped the son of Hungarian dictator Admiral Horty, which forced him to remain allied to Germany until the bitter end.
After the war, he turned himself in when charged with war crimes, but was aquitted of all charges. Among other things, he worked as chief of security for Evita Perón and is said to personally have dispatched a would-be assassin. He is also supposed to have had an affaire with her. He retired to Spain, started a successful engineering firm and died stinking rich in the early 70s.
I hope this is an essentially correct biography.
Holy Hypnotic Annexations, Batman!
Fantastic writing, although that was expected from you, Yog. Exciting, witty and with an excellect command of language.
I've read this story on and off as short breaks at work for a few months. Thanks for making the workday of a state bureaucrat feeling better.
I am immediately moving on to the Empire of Fu Manchu!
Fantastic writing, although that was expected from you, Yog. Exciting, witty and with an excellect command of language.
I've read this story on and off as short breaks at work for a few months. Thanks for making the workday of a state bureaucrat feeling better.
I am immediately moving on to the Empire of Fu Manchu!
Commandante said:Holy Hypnotic Annexations, Batman!
Fantastic writing, although that was expected from you, Yog. Exciting, witty and with an excellect command of language.
I've read this story on and off as short breaks at work for a few months. Thanks for making the workday of a state bureaucrat feeling better.
I am immediately moving on to the Empire of Fu Manchu!
Thank you Commandante, I'm happy you enjoyed it! And don't mention it, that's the least I could do for a fellow state bureaucrat.
Very, very, very good Yogi!
Incredible tale! I must admit that at first I was bit suspicious of all the name dropping but, hats off! You sir, definately brought 'em all alive, in a very Yogian way! :rofl:
Now I just must read the Empire of Fu Machu too!
Incredible tale! I must admit that at first I was bit suspicious of all the name dropping but, hats off! You sir, definately brought 'em all alive, in a very Yogian way! :rofl:
Now I just must read the Empire of Fu Machu too!
PDF-Version
This is truly an excellent story Yogi.
I first read it about a year ago, after seeing it in your signature, but didn't comment about it then.
Well, yesterday I came back to reread parts of it, for a better understanding of 'Empire of Fu Manchu' and decided it would be far more comfortable to have it as a pdf-file, both for reading it all or only looking up one episode.
So I made a pdf out of it, firstly for myself, but if you don't object, I'd be more than willing to share it with other people who may want to have this story on their harddrive.
So here is the pdf-version of
Master Plan of Fu Manchu
(If you don't approve of this, I will remove the link)
Btw: I had to replace three pics, because the links were broken, of Japanese General Hata (page 87), Emperer Pu-Yi (p.110) and SS-Officer Kurt Meyer (p.256), respectively.
Edit: Changed the link.
This is truly an excellent story Yogi.
I first read it about a year ago, after seeing it in your signature, but didn't comment about it then.
Well, yesterday I came back to reread parts of it, for a better understanding of 'Empire of Fu Manchu' and decided it would be far more comfortable to have it as a pdf-file, both for reading it all or only looking up one episode.
So I made a pdf out of it, firstly for myself, but if you don't object, I'd be more than willing to share it with other people who may want to have this story on their harddrive.
So here is the pdf-version of
Master Plan of Fu Manchu
(If you don't approve of this, I will remove the link)
Btw: I had to replace three pics, because the links were broken, of Japanese General Hata (page 87), Emperer Pu-Yi (p.110) and SS-Officer Kurt Meyer (p.256), respectively.
Edit: Changed the link.
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seboden said:
Not only do I approve, I thank you profusely! Is it OK with you if I link to the PDF-file in my signature? Also, make sure to give yourself a credit in the file for PDFing this.
Seboden: My ego is very happy to get credit for my guestwriting.
Yogi: Check your paradox mailbox.
Yogi: Check your paradox mailbox.
When I saw this pop up in my User Control Panel, I thought there was a new update of Empire of Fu Manchu! :wacko:
The Yogi said:
Oops, kind of overlooked that mistaken picture. I did wonder about it while copying, because I couldn't remember that picture, but then I forgot about it.
It's now fixed.
Master Plan of Fu Manchu
And of course, you're very welcome to link it in your signature.
You did afterall invest several hundred (or thousand?) hours of work into it,
while it took me only two or three.
And thanks once again for this great read.
I might start also putting Empire of Manchu into a pdf.
I'll let you know when it's finished.
Cheers seboden
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Yogi, I've finally finished reading through this first book of your Fu Manchu series and in a word - fun! The mixing of various characters from pulp fiction and film has been a joy to read. I especially enjoyed Chuin (from Remo Williams.) Hopefully there will be a bit more of him in the second book. Looks like I will have to dive in right away to read the continuing saga.
So here's a bump to say a very late congrats on completion of book one. A wild ride, enjoyable all the way. Nice work, Yogi.
Hopefully there will be a bit more of him in the second book. Looks like I will have to dive in right away to read the continuing saga.So here's a bump to say a very late congrats on completion of book one. A wild ride, enjoyable all the way. Nice work, Yogi.
coz1 said:Yogi, I've finally finished reading through this first book of your Fu Manchu series and in a word - fun! The mixing of various characters from pulp fiction and film has been a joy to read. I especially enjoyed Chuin (from Remo Williams.)
So here's a bump to say a very late congrats on completion of book one. A wild ride, enjoyable all the way. Nice work, Yogi.
Thanks coz1, I'm eagerly waiting for when you catch up with EOFM... which should be a bit easier now that there's a PDF (se my sig).
BTW, I've done a little bit of streamlining the AAR format, in the beginning I had it divided up in "Chapters" but later abandoned that, so I removed those... instead I put in links in the first post to the first post in each year in the AAR (1935-1939).
Perhaps you could link to the beginning of each 'story segment'? Such as the Antarctic Expedition, Sinkiang, etc...
anonymous4401 said:
That was the original intention with the chapters, but these "segments" are of very variable length, and link into each other... still, if a reasonable division could be made, I'd not be adverse too it.
anonymous4401 said:
Well, there is a table of contents in the pdf-version, with chapter titles and page numbers, so you could see where the first Schwabenland or the first Wewelsburg chapter is.
I also just updated it and included on Yogi's request some guest updates relating to Fu Manchu, which he made in another AAR.
The Yogi said:
Not wanting to be picky, but "Kai-shek" is Chiang Kai-shek's first name... his surname is "Chiang".