Patrick O Donnell: 18 books
Latent Destinies
Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2000
Latent Destinies examines the formation of postmodern sensibilities and their relationship to varieties of paranoia that have been seen as widespread in this century. Despite the fact that the Cold War has ended and the threat of nuclear annihilation has been dramatically lessened by most estimates,...
by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Patrick O'Donnell
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
"A generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken", was how F. Scott Fitzgerald defined his age. Perhaps nowhere in American fiction is this statement better exemplified than in Fitzgerald's first two volumes of short fiction: Flappers and Philosophers and Tales...
Beyond Valor
World War II's Ranger and Airborne Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2001
Previous books have promised to describe the combat experience of the World War II GI, but there has never been a book like Patrick O'Donnell's Beyond Valor. Here is the first combat history of the war in Europe in the words of the men themselves, and perhaps the most honest and brutal account of...
Into the Rising Sun
In Their Own Words, World War II's Pacific Veteran
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
"Iwo Jima was a massacre. I never expected anything like that. People were dying left and right...No names should have been used on the flag raisings because we didn't get up there by ourselves. It was the collective actions of a lot of people and there were a lot of Raiders and paratroopers up there...
Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs
The Unknown Story of the Men and Women of World War II's OSS
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2004
The battles of World War II were won not only by the soldiers on the front lines, and not only by the generals and admirals, but also by the shadow warriors whose work is captured for the first time in Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs. Thanks to the interviews and narrative skills of Patrick O'Donnell...
Washington's Immortals
The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
By the award-winning author of Dog Company: a historic account of a Revolutionary War unit’s “tactical acumen and human drama . . . combat writing at its best” (The Wall Street Journal).
In August 1776, little over a month after the Continental Congress had formally declared independence...
The Unknowns
The Untold Story of America’s Unknown Soldier and WWI’s Most Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is sacred ground at Arlington National Cemetery. Originally constructed in 1921 to hold one of the thousands of unidentified American soldiers lost in World War I, it now also contains unknowns from World War II and the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and receives millions...
De eerste SEALs
het ongelooflijke verhaal van een elite-eenheid in de Tweede Wereldoorlog
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Toen de Amerikanen na Pearl Harbor betrokken werden bij de Tweede Wereldoorlog realiseerde de militaire top zich dat er een elite-eenheid gevormd diende te worden die op een onconventionele manier oorlog zou kunnen voeren. Begin 1942 werd een groep buitengewone mannen - onder wie een tandarts, een...
First SEALs
The Untold Story of the Forging of America's Most Elite Unit
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
From bestselling author Patrick K. O'Donnell, the untold story of World War II's first unit of special operations combat swimmers-precursors of today's US Navy SEALs
Dog Company
The Boys of Pointe du Hoc--the Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day's Toughest Mission and Led the Way across Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
An epic World War II story of valor, sacrifice, and the Rangers who led the way to victory in Europe
It is said that the right man in the right place at the right time can make the difference between victory and defeat. This is the dramatic story of sixty-eight soldiers of the U.S. Army's 2nd...
We Were One
Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
A riveting first-hand account of the fierce battle for Fallujah during the Iraq War and the Marines who fought there--a story of brotherhood and sacrifice in a platoon of heroes
Five months after being deployed to Iraq, Lima Company's 1st Platoon, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, found itself...
Geef me morgen
het onvergetelijke verhaal van de George Company in de Korea-oorlog
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 24, 2016
'Wat zou je willen als je een wens mocht doen?' vroeg de fotograaf aan de verwilderde, bebloede marinier. De soldaat gaapte zijn interviewer aan. De fotograaf klikte met zijn camera, de foto werd een symbool van de Koreaanse oorlog. 'Geef me morgen,' zei de marinier uiteindelijk. Na vier maanden voortdurende...
De mannen van Pointe du Hoc
het onvergetelijke verhaal van de Dog Company in de Tweede Wereldoorlog
Language: Dutch
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Het verschil tussen een overwinning en een nederlaag kan erg klein zijn; er wordt wel gezegd dat het vaak een kwestie is van de juiste mensen op de juiste plaats. Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Europa gold dit zeker voor de Dog Company, de soldaten van het 2nd Ranger Bataillon van het Amerikaanse...
Give Me Tomorrow
The Korean War's Greatest Untold Story--The Epic Stand of the Marines of George Company
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
An epic story of valor and sacrifice by a legendary Marine company in the Korean War brought to gripping, cinematic light by an acclaimed historian ("Gives the brave Marines of George Company long overdue recognition"--New York Post)
"What would you want if you could have any...
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