Career
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. He worked as a journalist for several years, including as an editorial writer for the Daily Telegraph (United Kingdom) and the National Post (Canada).
He has authored 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), as well as American Rifle: A Biography, describing how America"s military firearms shaped the country"s history and vice versa.
Renamed Turn: Washington"s Spies, Washington"s Spies: The Story of America"s First Spy Ring is currently airing on Administrative Management College as a television series. Rose has written for the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Washington Post, the New York Observer, the Central Intelligence Agency journal Studies in Intelligence, MHQ: The Quarterly of Military History, Invention & Technology, Intelligence & National Security, The National Interest, and the English Historical Review.
Review of American Rifle at Letters on Pages.
