Articles by Patrick K. O’Donnell

Fox News

• The first October Surprise, in a presidential election considered the most important in history
• Finding Sgt Frith: A Civil War soldier to remember on Memorial Day
• Civil War taught how to influence news media. It nearly cost Lincoln re-election
• Lincoln's special forces battled Mosby's Confederate Rangers with bravery and brains
• How humanity triumphed over an actual lottery of death during the Civil War
• The brave men who saved America's first Christmas

The Daily Beast

• The World War I Battle That Turned Into a Suicide Mission

National Review

• “Why You Should Care about World War I”
• “America’s 300 Moment: The Maryland Spartans Who Saved Washington’s Army”
• “The Valentine’s Day that Saved an American Army”
• “How the SEALs Improvised Right from the Start”
• “Christmas with America’s First SEAL, in a Gestapo Prison”
• “Beyond Valor”
• “The Forgotten ‘Pearl Harbor’”
• “Back to the Front”
• “The Final Order”
• “The American Platoon”
   

Breitbart News

• Scores of articles from the American Revolution to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

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Selected Articles

Numerous articles for WWII Magazine, MHQ, American Spirit (DAR), and WWII Quarterly, including:

• “Marylanders at the Battle of Hobkirk’s Hill,” DAR American Spirit
• “Experience of War: Raid on Makin,” Military History Quarterly
• "Bloody Ridge" WWII Magazine
• "Dog Company: The Boys of Point Du Hoc," WWII Quarterly