Larry alexander author biography for book
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76 Hours: A Novel of Tarawa
Larry Alexander. Blackstone, $27.99 (350p) ISBN 979-8-200-81600-2
WWII historian Alexander (A Higher Call) makes his fiction debut with a rote take on the invasion of Tarawa Atoll. Pvt. Pete “Hardball” Talbot, three months out of basic training, hits the beach with his Marine unit and immediately comes under fire.
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Shattered Jade
Larry Alexander. Blackstone, $26.99 (440p) ISBN 979-8-200-81604-0
Alexander’s dutiful sequel to 76 Hours finds U.S. Marine Pete “Hardball” Talbot taking part in the invasion of Saipan, one of the bloodiest battles in the Pacific theater of WWII. It’s June 1944 and Pete, back in action after being wounded at Tarawa
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Larry Alexander
Shadows in the Jungle
- The Alamo Scouts Behind Japanese Lines in World War II
- By: Larry Alexander
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
Set on retaking the Philippines ever since his ignominious flight from the islands in 1942, General Douglas MacArthur needed a first-rate intelligence-gathering unit....
- 4 out of 5 stars
Shadows In The Jungle.
- By Charles on 12-27-09
Larry Alexander
Larry Alexander (journalist)
American journalist and military historian
Larry Alexander (born January 28, 1951) is an American journalist and military historian who has written a number of books about World War II, most notably about Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army. Easy Company was made famous principally by Stephen Ambrose's book and the Band of Brothers (TV miniseries) of that name.
Author/Historian
Alexander has been a columnist for the Lancaster Newspapers, Inc., a newspaper in Lancaster, Pennsylvania since 1993. He retired from the paper in 2015. While with Lancaster Newspapers, he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2005 and has won state-level journalism awards. He grew up on the same street as Dick Winters in Ephrata, Pennsylvania and made friends with him in 2001. Alexander began writing Winter's biography two years later. His first book, Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, the Man Who Led the Band of Brothers, was published in 2005 and made the New York Times bestseller list. He then went looking for a new topic and discovered the Alamo Scout web page. He followed up his first success with Shadows In The Jungle: The Alamo Scouts Behind Japanese Lines In World War II and In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers: A Return to Easy Company's Battlefields with Sgt. Forrest Guth, both published in 2010. He then co-authored A Higher Call with journalist and historian Adam Makos, which also made the New York Times and International best sellers lists; and Bloody Ridge and Beyond with Marlin Groft.
Personal and family
He lives in Ephrata, Pa. with his wife, Barbara.