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Summary: Members of the Ranger and Airborne troops from World War II tell their own stories of dropping behind enemy lines, in a series of eyewitness accounts of the war in North Africa and Europe based on more than six hundred interviews with the veterans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 ODOO'Donnell, Patrick K.
Summary: Offers the remarkable, but forgotten, story of George Company during the Korean War, an outfit of hastily trained green soldiers that faced an entire division of Chinese troops on the frozen tundra of Chosin Reservoir.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.904 ODOO'Donnell, Patrick K.
Summary: 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
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "The rich history of SEAL Team 6 that captured Osama bin Laden stretches back to World War II when US intelligence officials formed a team of special-operation combat swimmers. Under the leadership of Captain Jack Taylor, a California dentist, the Maritime Unit (MU) started training in 1942, learning underwater and covert operation techniques, as it developed an array of James Bond-like new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Celebrated military historian and bestselling author Patrick O'Donnell illuminates the saga behind the creation of the Tomb itself and recreates the moving ceremony during which it was consecrated and the eight Body Bearers, and the sergeant who had chosen the one body to be interred, solemnly united. Brilliantly researched, vividly told, The Unknowns is a timeless tale of heeding the calls of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 ODOCopies Available at Interlochen
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Summary: The never-before-told true story of a small team of American saboteurs with orders to sever the Third Reich's main supply artery--the Brenner Pass.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5486 ODOO'Donnell, Patrick K.
Summary: "On the stormy night of August 29, 1776, the Continental Army faced annihilation. After losing the Battle of Brooklyn, the British had Washington's army trapped against the East River. The fate of the Revolution rested heavily on the shoulders of the soldier-mariners from Marblehead, Massachusetts. Serving side-by-side in one of the country's first diverse units, they pulled off an "American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 O'DOO'Donnell, Patrick K.
Summary: "From the bestselling author of The Indispensables, the unknown and dramatic story of irregular guerrilla warfare that altered the course of the Civil War and inspired the origins of America's modern special operations forces. The Civil War is most remembered for the grand battles that have come to define it: Gettysburg, Antietam, Shiloh, among others. However, as bestselling author Patrick K....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2024