Beyond Valor: World War II's Ranger and Airborne Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat

Members of the Ranger and Airborne troops from World War II tell their own action-packed 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. 50,000 first printing.

Patrick K. O'Donnell is the creator of The Drop Zone (www.thedropzone.org), the first virtual community for WWII veterans and the interested public dedicated to collecting and sharing the stories of the war. The site has won praise from newspapers across the country such as The Wall Street Journal, which said, "The Drop Zone presents the remarkable and often terrifying war stories of U.S. Army Airborne and Ranger troops. Browse through a few of these tales and you will probably gain new respect for the older men in the Veterans Day parade." This book is the culmination of nine years of research.