Author of PHANTOM FLEET and WASHINGTON'S SPIES (made into the AMC series TURN). America's 78th Most Famous Historian. alexanderrose.substack.com
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30 May 2025
Oh no, I actually forgot to post about the publication of my new(est) book, Phantom Fleet: The Hunt for Nazi Submarine U-505 and World War II's Most Daring Heist, which some (OK, fine, it was me) have said "is the greatest book written recently about this one particular naval incident." Anyway, so now you know. Available at Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and Bookshop. (Casual Reminder: Father's Day is rapidly approaching . . . ) #submarines #WorldWarTwo #wwiihistory #Uboats #USNavy
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Alexander Rose retweeted
28 May 2025
Let's go sub hunting! @AlexRoseWriter returns to talk his book Phantom Fleet: The Hunt for Nazi Submarine U-505 and World War II's Most Daring Heist!
Listen on any pod app, YouTube, or here: zurl.co/ljcUI
#battleoftheatlantic #worldwar2 #worldwarii #submarines #uboats
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21 Mar 2025
Been busy for a bit finishing the new book (Phantom Fleet), but here's a new post about historical intelligence from my Spionage Substack--
open.substack.com/pub/alexan…
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15 Feb 2025
One of life's sweetest revelations was the discovery that in the late 70s Telly Savalas narrated a series of three touristy documentaries on Britain's most splendid cities (Birmingham, Portsmouth, and Aberdeen), despite never visiting them.
youtube.com/watch?v=EoHVO1eS…
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14 Feb 2025
You know what I love about @ScrivenerApp? It's that in the Release Notes they use words like "erstwhile." (They missed a trick, though, by omitting, "we daresay.")
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9 Feb 2025
Just returned from a most enjoyable @SocIntelHist conference at the @IntlSpyMuseum, during which I appeared on a panel moderated by the estimable @spyhistorian. Here's a picture of me lecturing a rapt audience eagerly awaiting the next speaker. (And a thank-you to my fellow panelists, @douglaslondon5, @nakashimae, and Nicholas Reynolds.)
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23 Nov 2024
So, anyway, here's the cover of my new book coming out in May. We spent an exciting three weeks debating the subtitle: "and" or an em-dash, "World War II's" or "of World War II," that kind of thing.
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2 Aug 2024
Exciting news: I believe I have discovered the Least Informative Table of Contents of All Time.
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15 Jul 2024
Hi all, if you’re simply dying to hear me talk about me (sorry, “Civil War Espionage”) for half an hour, you should definitely listen to/watch this fab interview conducted by the fine folks of AFIO.
15 Jul 2024
New AFIO Now Episode! Author @AlexRoseWriter discusses his latest book, "The Lion And The Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy." AFIO President discusses Rose's untold tale of two Civil War foes. It's a must-watch episode!
youtube.com/watch?v=W_bPG17V…
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12 Jun 2024
Well, the big news is that I submitted the manuscript for the new book, and the smaller news is that I have since written a new post for Spionage. open.substack.com/pub/alexan…
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20 Nov 2023
For the sake of curiosity, I'm trying to trace the first use of the following dialogue: "It's quiet." "Too quiet." I noticed that James Coburn says it in Peckinpah's "Cross of Iron," but surely that can't have been the first time.
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17 Nov 2023
Wrote a @WSJ review of @James1940's new book, The Savage Storm. (Bonus Six Million Dollar Man x Edward Gibbon gag, which don't come along too often--probably for good reason.) wsj.com/arts-culture/books/t…
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16 Aug 2023
Today I actually said, in the midst of a normal conversation about whether to cancel a restaurant reservation, "I need a Go/No Go on this so I can authorize a Kill Order." For that one brief moment, I was living in Jason Bourne's world.
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Alexander Rose retweeted
14 Jul 2023
It's the #weekend! Friday #book #rec time! I love this one by @AlexRoseWriter from @MarinerBooks. It's a war book and a spy book.
Alex is also one of my favorite #podcast guests. Take a read or a listen!
Pod: zurl.co/GepY
My review: zurl.co/wEEO
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24 Jun 2023
I’m reading Hare’s 1883 guidebook, “Cities of Southern Italy and Sicily,” and he has this soundly Victorian opinion of Pompeii: “The first impression on entering the mummied city is always one of disappointment . . . The windowless houses . . . look more like ruined cow-sheds or pig-sties than anything else . . . A winter of the nineteenth century would be unendurable in the comfortless toy houses.”
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19 Jun 2023
I’m at Lowe’s, where, if you need to build a watchtower at Stalag Luft III, they have you covered. Machine gun and searchlight sold separately. Poseable guard available.
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30 May 2023
In my latest Substack effort, "Spionage" investigates Astrological Intelligence in World War Two. As is always the case, it's free to read and even freer to subscribe, although you do have to put up with me plugging my own books at every opportunity.
alexanderrose.substack.com/p…
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Alexander Rose retweeted
23 May 2023
Remarkable set of scores in the Canaan Premier League.
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13 Apr 2023
I was checking something on Wikipedia about the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur (OK, fine, I was looking into whether I could get one), and noticed this curiously specific line:
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