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:

Remarkable set of scores in the Canaan Premier League.

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/in-the-stars

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.

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

It's the #weekend! Friday #book #rec time! I love this one by Alexander Rose from Mariner Books. 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

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.

Wrote a The Wall Street Journal review of James Holland'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/b…

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.

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/alexanderr…

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.

Exciting news: I believe I have discovered the Least Informative Table of Contents of All Time.

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.

Just returned from a most enjoyable Society for Intelligence History conference at the The International Spy Museum, during which I appeared on a panel moderated by the estimable Andrew Hammond. Here's a picture of me lecturing a rapt audience eagerly awaiting the next speaker. (And a thank-you to my fellow

You know what I love about Scrivener? It's that in the Release Notes they use words like "erstwhile." (They missed a trick, though, by omitting, "we daresay.")

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=EoHVO1…

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/alexanderr…

Let's go sub hunting! Alexander Rose 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