Patrick O'Donnell was interviewed for BookCast by Fairfax County Public Library Director Sam Clay. BookCast is sponsored by Virginia Commerce Bank through the Fairfax Library Foundation.

• Combat historian Patrick O'Donnell is the author of four books:
  
  
  • We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder With the Marines Who Took Fallujah
  
  
  
  • Operatives, Spies and Saboteurs: The Unknown Story of the Men and Women of World War II's OSS
  
  
  
  • Into the Rising Sun: In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat
  
  
  
  • Beyond Valor: World War II's Ranger and Airborne Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat



• O'Donnell was a historical consultant for DreamWorks' award-winning mini-series "Band of Brothers," and for documentaries produced by the BBC, Fox News, and The History Channel.



• O'Donnell is the founder of The Drop Zone, an award-winning World War II oral history project.