alex kershaw ✓

@kershaw_alex · Washington, DC · joined 31 Oct 2012

NY Times best-selling author of The Bedford Boys, The Longest Winter, #TheLiberator etc. Public speaker, journalist and tour leader. Historian @WWIIMemorial

58 427Followers

9 488Following

8 353Posts total

155.4KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

alex kershaw ✓@kershaw_alex12 Sep

Today's MOH hero. 27-year-old 2nd Lt. Raymond Zussman is serving as a second lieutenant, commanding tanks of the 756th Tank Battalion. During a battle in the city of Noroy-le-Bourg, France, Zussman repeatedly goes forward alone to scout enemy positions, exposing himself to ht 2.2K views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

alex kershaw ✓@kershaw_alex10 Sep

@kershaw_alex I’ve posted this before but my Dad’s unit was attached to 1st ID. He wore their insignia as his combat unit https://t.co/kpsMrM5qOV

677 views · 11 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

alex kershaw ✓@kershaw_alex10 Sep

@kershaw_alex Heroes 🇺🇸 393 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

alex kershaw ✓@kershaw_alex10 Sep

@kershaw_alex While crossing Belgium in September 1944, the Big Red One helped trap and capture 25,000 Axis troops in the Battle of the Mons Pocket. It proved to be one of the most decisive, asymmetric victories of their 443 days in combat. 1.1K views · 17 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

alex kershaw ✓@kershaw_alex10 Sep

A long way from Bloody Omaha. Men of the 16th Inf. Regiment, Big Red One, move through a small town in Belgium today. By war's end, 1,250 officers and men will have been killed in 443 days of combat. https://t.co/Fev1pKEGuN

62.7K views · 910 likes · 51 reposts · 8 replies Open on X →

alex kershaw ✓@kershaw_alex10 Sep

Ike approves Market Garden, the biggest airborne operation in history. The countdown begins - just seven days to go. https://t.co/ElmGTnVw4O

12.5K views · 657 likes · 37 reposts · 18 replies Open on X →

alex kershaw ✓@kershaw_alex9 Sep

@kershaw_alex "- Lt. General Frederick Browning - See here, General Sosaboski, I should think you would have more faith in Field Marshal Montgomery's plan. - General Stanislaw Sosabowski - Faith? I will tell you how much faith I have. I am thinking of asking for a letter from you

1.3K views · 18 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

alex kershaw ✓@kershaw_alex9 Sep

@kershaw_alex https://t.co/4S0XlcXJlW

448 views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

alex kershaw ✓@kershaw_alex9 Sep

@kershaw_alex That’s what always gets me in the movie A Bridge Too Far. The British general pushing Montgomerys plan, who won’t listen to any questions from anybody, has the audacity to tell the general played by Sean Connery at the end, I always knew it was a bridge too far. Wha 1.2K views · 10 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

alex kershaw ✓@kershaw_alex9 Sep

I usually only visit WW2 sites where Americans fought in Europe. Next week I'll be at Arnhem for a full day of the British. Can't wait. A very moving place. Guess when and where this amazing image was taken? https://t.co/Yrj4Fjv7RN

27.4K views · 869 likes · 29 reposts · 46 replies Open on X →

alex kershaw ✓@kershaw_alex9 Sep

A tragedy forewarned. British ULTRA decrypts of coded German radio messages indicate that the 9th and 10th SS Panzer Divisions have been ordered to the Arnhem area. Agents from the Dutch resistance send explicit warnings that heavily armored German SS units are moving today into

45.5K views · 772 likes · 50 reposts · 31 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

11 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers of the same size.

Median views1 260this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.16%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.55%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 260	924	1.36×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.16%	3.62%	0.60×
Engagement rate	1.55%	1.52%	1.02×

Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →

Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

45.5K9 Sep

27.4K

1.2K

448

1.3K

12.5K10 Sep

62.7K

1.1K

393

677

2.2K12 Sep

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.87%9 Sep

3.44%

1.00%

1.79%

1.51%

5.70%10 Sep

1.55%

1.54%

0.25%

1.62%

0.00%12 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes89.5%3 273 in total

Reposts4.6%167 in total

Replies2.9%106 in total

Bookmarks3.0%109 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

Against accounts of the same size

Growth & engagement

Views per post

Engagement rate per post

What the audience does

Similar accounts