Alexander Rose (author)

Born in the United States, Rose was raised in Australia and Britain and educated at Cambridge University. He was awarded a doctorate for his thesis, Radar Strategy: The Air Dilemma and British Politics, 1932–1937. ==Career==

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 written 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 Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient. Renamed ''Turn: Washington's Spies, Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring'' aired on AMC as a television series. Rose writes the Spionage newsletter, and his work has appeared in 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. ==Filmography==

• Review of American Rifle at Letters on Pages ==Publications==

• {{Cite book|last=Rose |first=Alexander • Rose, Alexander. ''Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring''. New York: Bantam Books, 2006. • Rose, Alexander. American Rifle: A Biography. New York: Bantam Dell, 2008. • • Rose, Alexander. ''Empires of the Sky: Zeppelins, Airplanes, and Two Men's Epic Duel to Rule the World''. New York: Random House, 2020. • Rose, Alexander. The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy. New York: Mariner Books, 2022. • Rose, Alexander. ''Phantom Fleet: The Hunt for Nazi Submarine U-505 and WWII's Most Daring Heist.'' New York: Little, Brown, 2025. ISBN 978-0316564472 ==References==