Larry Alexander (born January 28, 1951) is an American journalist and military historian who has written a number of books about

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, most notably about Easy Company of the

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of the

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Division of the

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. Easy Company was made famous principally by

Stephen Ambrose Stephen Edward Ambrose (January 10, 1936 – October 13, 2002) was an American historian, academic, and author, most noted for his books on World War II and his biographies of U.S. presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a long ...

's book and the ''

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'' of that name.

Author/Historian

Alexander has been a columnist for the '' Lancaster Newspapers, Inc.'', a newspaper in

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since 1993. He retired from the paper in 2015. While with Lancaster Newspapers, he was nominated for a

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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.

Bibliography

* ''Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, The Man Who Led the Band of Brothers'', 2005 * ''Shadows in the Jungle: The Alamo Scouts Behind Japanese Lines in World War II'', 2010 * ''In the Footsteps of the Band of Brothers: A Return to Easy Company's Battlefields with Sgt. Forrest Guth'', 2010 * '' A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry of Combat in the War-Torn Skies of World War II'', 2012 co-author Adam Makos * ''Bloody Ridge and Beyond: A World War II Marine's Memoirs of Edison's Raiders in the Pacific'', 2014, co-author Marlin Groft

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Alexander, Larry American military historians American historians of World War II American male non-fiction writers American columnists People from Ephrata, Pennsylvania Writers from Lancaster, Pennsylvania Historians from Pennsylvania Living people 1951 births