Patrick K. O'Donnell is the critically acclaimed author of the bestseller Beyond Valor, which won the Colby Circle Award for Outstanding Military History, as well as Into the Rising Sun, Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs, We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder With the Marines Who Took Fallujah. and most recently published THE BRENNER ASSIGNMENT: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE MOST DARING SPY MISSION OF WWII.

As a combat historian, O'Donnell was the only civilian to spend three months in Iraq in uniform and conduct oral histories of our troops in battle. He literally fought with the marines in Fallujah, was ambushed several times, and dragged a mortally wounded marine from battle. He has provided historical consulting for DreamWorks' award-winning miniseries Band of Brothers, and for scores of documentaries produced by the BBC, the History Channel, and Fox News. He is an expert on WWII espionage, special operations and counter-insurgency on the modern battlefield. O'Donnell is also the founder of the Drop Zone (www.thedropzone.org), an award-winning web site dedicated to preserving the oral histories of veterans. His books and website have been widely praised by newspapers across the country, including USA Today,The Washington Post,The Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. His books have been Main or Alternate selections of the Book-of-the-Month, History, and Military History Book-Clubs, and have been released as audiobooks from Random House Audio and Blackstone Audiobooks.

His next book, THEY DARED RETURN is an untold account of Jewish spies who attempted to change the course of WWII.