Alex Kershaw (born 1966) is an English journalist, public speaker and the author of several best-selling books, including The Liberator, The First Wave, The Bedford Boys and The Longest Winter.

[1] Born in York, England, in 1966, Kershaw attended University College, Oxford where he studied politics, philosophy and economics.

[1] Kershaw's journalism has appeared in many magazines and newspapers since 1990, varying from investigative pieces and reportage to interviews with subjects ranging from Frank Zappa,[3] Alger Hiss and Garry Kasparov to the boxer Max Schmeling and dozens of World War II veterans.

[8] It was followed by other titles: The Few, 2006, the story of eight American pilots who fought illegally in the Battle of Britain;[9] Escape from the Deep, 2008, the tale of the only successful escape from a submerged American submarine, the USS Tang, without surface assistance in late October 1944;[10] and The Envoy, 2010, an account of Raoul Wallenberg's rescue efforts in Hungary during the Holocaust, based on extensive interviews with survivors saved by Wallenberg.

He has an honorary doctorate in military history from Norwich University and is a Board director of Friends of the National WWII Memorial.