Author of PHANTOM FLEET and WASHINGTON'S SPIES (made into the AMC series TURN). America's 78th Most Famous Historian. https://xitter.cf/t.co/RaDDAPMGQt
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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
Alexander Rose retweeted
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
Alexander Rose retweeted
The letter that started it all. For a limited time, see the original 246-year-old George Washington letter initiating America's first spy ring.
The letter, which is stored 10 months out of the year to preserve its fragile state – is now on display this #PresidentsDay weekend.
Alexander Rose retweeted
The Black Panther sequel includes a Wakandan aircraft carrier with no destroyer screen, never let a landlocked nation do naval warfare
Alexander Rose retweeted
Totally loving Taylor Swift's suit, which is designed to break up her shape against the background, thereby making it difficult for German U-Boats to calculate her range, speed and direction.
Alexander Rose retweeted
We have two new December releases for you! 🎁❄️
#ScreamingontheInside by @JessGrose
and #TheLionandtheFox by @AlexRoseWriter are ready to be added to your holiday shopping lists.📚
Screaming On The Inside: fal.cn/3udgH
The Lion and the Fox: fal.cn/3udgI
Alexander Rose retweeted
It’s officially official - after being closed for 2 and 1/2 years, the National Cryptologic Museum will be OPENING to the public in October 8th!!!
Alexander Rose retweeted
SMH, so many of you out there grilling and lighting fireworks this weekend without remembering the real heroes of July 4th like Captain Steven Hiller and David Levinson who made our freedom possible:
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Between them these two books cover everything to look for in the entire universe.
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Don Draper wasn't a marketing genius. You know who was a marketing genius? Whoever decided to give the Patagonian toothfish the infinitely more appetizing name "Chilean sea bass."
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Reminder that even the coolest movie of the 1980s had promotional stills that made it look like the cast was about to break out in a choreographed musical number:
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Faces of History: This is Emmanuel Louis Cartigny (1791-1892), who was the last surviving combatant in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, fighting for Napoleon Bonaparte against Horatio Nelson & the British naval forces.
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It’s Raymond Chandler’s birthday, which means it’s time to revisit the greatest ever list of unused titles. – at Hackney, London
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Each week, @SmithsonianMag spotlights nonfiction books that may have been lost in the news amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Our latest column features riveting reads by @RotwangsRobot, @AlexRoseWriter, @wendymoore99, @GaryVikanAuthor and @SzabWitold: smithsonianmag.com/history/s…
Alexander Rose retweeted
Vydeo games pre-2020: Bearing a mightye blade ye, a solitarye warrior, fighte monsters yn a worlde of gloom.
Vydeo games post-2020: Fynde the best mushroom dish to celebrate the hedgehog playwright winning a grant. Quick! Maybe the wyse duck at the store will have sum recipes.
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Vydeo games pre-2020: Alone ye navigate a dystopian hellscape engaging yn brutal combat wyth mutants. Lyfe ys war.
Vydeo games post-2020: Ye have made an elegantlye carved table leg to complete the table being built by a teame of poets for the owl weddinge. A mouse ys singing.