This is like that time Thom Yorke of Radiohead appeared on the cover of an Iranian book about male sexual dysfunction.

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…

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…

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.")

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.)

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.

Exciting news: I believe I have discovered the Least Informative Table of Contents of All 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/alexan…

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.

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…