his numerous awards include prestigious william colby award. it provides historical confrontation for dreamworks, award winning miniseries band of brothers and documentaries produced by the bbc, history channel and fox news. he is a combat historian in the battle of volusia beach in demand as an expert speaker on world war ii sabotage special operation counterinsurgency on the battlefield. over the past 20 years he has interviewed 4,000, 5,000 veterans as part of america's wars from world war i afghanistan specializing in untold stories that read like novels. please welcome patrick o'donnell. [applause] >> it is really a pleasure and honor to be here. the beginning of my book tour, just came out this week. as jim said i have interviewed 5,000 world war ii veteran, spent an entire lifetime studying world war ii and the stories i will tell you tonight or today is an untold story. most interesting story i have never come across in all the years i have been on this earth. the story begins right here in washington d.c. only a few blocks away, is nov

his numerous awards include prestigious william colby award. it provides historical confrontation for dreamworks, award winning miniseries band of brothers and documentaries produced by the bbc, history channel and fox news. he is a combat historian in the battle of volusia beach in demand as an expert speaker on world war ii sabotage special operation counterinsurgency on e