I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story-Fast Shipping

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author lends his remarkablenarrative skills to the story of the most famous POW this country has known.

In I Am a Soldier, Too, Bragg lets Jessica Lynch tell the story of her capture in theIraq War in her own words–not the sensationalized ones of the media’s initial reports. Here we see how a humble rural upbringing leads to a stint in the military, one ofthe most exciting job options for a young person in Palestine, West Virginia. Wesee the real story behind the ambush in the Iraqi Desert that led to Lynch’s we gain new perspective on her rescue from an Iraqi hospital where she had beenreceiving care. Here Lynch’s true heroism and above all, modesty, is allowed to emerge,as we’re shown how she managed her physical recovery from her debilitating woundsand contended with the misinformation–both deliberate and unintended–surroundingher highly publicized the end, what we see is a uniquely American storyof courage and true heroism.