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Episode 56: Alexander Rose, Historian

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Show Notes

Alexander Rose is a historian whose latest book, Phantom Fleet, is about how the US Navy captured a German U-Boat on the day before D-Day.

Show notes:

Alexander Rose

Phantom Fleet: The Hunt for Nazi Submarine U-505 and World War II's Most Daring Heist

Washington's Spies

Spionage (Alexander's Rose's Substack)

Voltaire: history of Charles XII, King of Sweden | Project Gutenberg

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