Patrick O'Donnell
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Five resourceful Jewish refugees return to Nazi-controlled Austria to conduct espionage, in a book that combines scrupulous research and firsthand accounts with the breakneck pace of a classic spy thriller.
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The Brenner Assignment is a WWII story that resonates today, revealing lessons for the war on terror.
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Patrick K. O’Donnell
Patrick K. O’Donnell is a military historian and the author of The Brenner Assignment: The Untold Story of the Most Daring Spy Mission of World War II; Beyond Valor: An Oral History of the Elite Troops, winner of the prestigious William E. Colby Award for Outstanding Military History; Into the Rising Sun: World War II’s Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat; Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs: The Unknown History of the Men and Women of World War II’s OSS; and the highly acclaimed We Were One, about a Marine platoon in the Battle of Fallujah. He has provided historical consulting for DreamWorks’ award-winning miniseries “Band of Brothers” and for documentaries produced by the BBC, the History Channel and FOX News. He is an expert on WWII espionage and special operations, and he is also the founder of the Drop Zone, an award-winning online oral history Web site. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.
