Alexander Rose (born 1971) is an author and a historian.
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Occupation | Historian |
Language | English |
Education | Cambridge University |
Genre | Non-fiction |
Subject | American history British history |
Notable works | Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring |
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Born in the United States, Rose was raised in Australia and Britain and educated at Cambridge University.[1] He was awarded a doctorate for his thesis, Radar Strategy: The Air Dilemma and British Politics, 1932–1937.
He worked as a journalist for several years, including as an editorial writer for The Daily Telegraph (UK) and the National Post (Canada). He has authored Kings in the North: The House of Percy in British History, a biography of some thirteen generations of the barons and earls of Northumberland between 1066 and 1485; Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring (a detailed account of George Washington's personal spies, the Culper Ring); American Rifle: A Biography, describing how America's military firearms shaped the country's history and vice versa; and Empires of the Sky: Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men's Epic Duel to Rule the World concerning the competition between airplanes and zeppelins. He is a member of the United States Commission on Military History, the Society for Military History, and the Royal Historical Society, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. Renamed Turn: Washington's Spies, Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring aired on AMC as a television series.[2][3]
Rose has written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Observer, the CIA journal Studies in Intelligence, MHQ: The Quarterly of Military History, Invention & Technology, Intelligence & National Security, The National Interest, and the English Historical Review.[4][5]
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2015–2017 | Turn: Washington's Spies | Writer | Episodes:
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2017 | Edmund Hewlett's aide | (uncredited) Episode:
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