About the Presenter
Patrick K. O’Donnell is a bestselling, critically acclaimed military historian, and one of the world’s leading authorities on special operations forces and elite units. He is the author of fourteen books, including several recent bestselling, award-winning works, including, The Indispensables, Washington’s Immortals, and The Unvanquished.
He served as a combat historian who fought house-to-house with a Marine Corps rifle platoon during the Battle of Fallujah and is a professional speaker on America’s conflicts, espionage, special operations, and counterinsurgency. Over the past thirty-three years, he has conducted thousands of oral histories with WWII veterans and members of elite and special operations units.
He writes monthly for several national publications, and the big screen, he has provided historical consulting for DreamWorks’ award-winning miniseries Band of Brothers and for scores of documentaries produced by the BBC, Fox News, and the History Channel.