Alex Kershaw is the British author of several popular books about World War II, notably the New York Times best-sellers The Bedford Boys and The Longest Winter

The Longest Winter

The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon is a non-fiction book written by Alex Kershaw and published in 2004 by Da Capo Press. It became a New York Times bestseller....

. He has lived in the US since 1994.

Born in York, England, Kershaw attended University College, Oxford where he studied politics, philosophy and economics. He taught history at Whitgift school for two years before working as a journalist for several British newspapers, including The Guardian, The Independent and The Sunday Times. His journalism has appeared in many leading newspapers and magazines around the world. He has also worked as a writer and producer in television, penning an award-winning documentary about Bobby Kennedy. Several of his books have been optioned by Hollywood, including The Few which was selected as the Military Book Club's first ever book of the year in 2006. His work has been translated into over a dozen languages. Kershaw appeared in the "Battle Of The Bulge" episode of When Weather Changed History. He is currently working on a book about the Allied liberation of Europe, titled 500 Days.

He has been cited as a "master storyteller" by Booklist

Booklist

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 for his work on The Few. He lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts

Williamstown, Massachusetts

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Director Duncan Jones

Duncan Jones

Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones , also known as Zowie Bowie is an English film director, best known for directing the science fiction films Moon and Source Code .-Childhood and family life:...

 will be directing the film adaptation of Escape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew.

Works

• The Bedford Boys
• Jack London: A Life
• Blood and Champagne: The Life and Times of Robert Capa
• The Longest Winter
  The Longest Winter
  The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon is a non-fiction book written by Alex Kershaw and published in 2004 by Da Capo Press. It became a New York Times bestseller....
  
   - The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon, Da Capo Press, 2004 ISBN 0-306-81304-1
• The Few: The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything to Fight in the Battle of Britain
• Escape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew, Perseus Books, 2008
• The Envoy: The Epic Rescue of the Last Jews of Europe, Da Capo Press, 2010 - published in the UK as To Save a People, by Hutchinson
  Hutchinson (publisher)
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External links

• Kershaw's website
• book tv interview
• Interview on The Longest Winter at the Pritzker Military Library
  Pritzker Military Library
  The Pritzker Military Library is a research library for the study of military history in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded in 2003 by COL James N. Pritzker, IL ARNG to be a non-partisan institution for the study of "the citizen soldier as an essential element for the preservation of...
  
  
• Interview on The Few
• Interview on Escape from the Deep