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Saving of Private Jessica earns her $1m book deal

GETHIN CHAMBERLAIN


THE young soldier whose capture and rescue won the hearts of Americans has
secured a $1 million book deal to tell her story.

News organisations and publishers inundated Jessica Lynch with offers to
reveal what really happened after she was captured by Iraqi troops in the
southern city of Nasiriyah on March 23.

She had remained silent on the subject, claiming to have little memory of her
capture or rescue, but that has not stopped a heated debate about one of the
most controversial incidents of the war.

According to the official version of events, Private Lynch’s convoy was
ambushed as it drove through Nasiriyah and she was captured after a fierce
gun battle. She was taken to hospital, from where she was rescued by an elite
force of US troops who swooped in helicopters and fought their way into the
building. When they eventually found her bed and told her they were American
soldiers, her first words were said to be "I am a soldier, too."

Critics, however, claimed that the rescue of Private Lynch was stage-managed
by the Pentagon to boost morale at a time when the war was not going to plan.
They say that she was injured in a car crash and that the hospital in which
she was treated was not defended when US troops arrived.

The truth is probably somewhere in between, but Private Lynch will now have
the chance to put the record straight thanks to the lucrative book deal with
publisher Alfred A Knopf.

Yesterday, in a statement issued by Knopf she said: "Many folks have written,
expressing their support for me and for the thousands of other soldiers who
serve their country.

"I feel I owe them all this story, which will be about more than a girl going
off to war and fighting alongside her fellow soldiers. It will be a story
about growing up in America."

I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story, co-written by Pulitzer Prize
winner Rick Bragg, is scheduled to come out in mid-November with a first
printing of about 500,000 copies. Lynch will share the royalties with Bragg,
who has been granted exclusive access to Lynch and her family.

Lynch received a medical discharge last week from the army, making her
eligible to pursue book and film deals.

Lynch, 20, suffered multiple broken bones and other injuries when her 507th
Maintenance Company was ambushed in Nasiriyah.

Her rescue on 1 April made her a celebrity. She had joined the army to get an
education to help fulfil her ambition to become a kindergarten teacher.

She returned home to Palestine, West Virginia, in July to a hero’s welcome
after a long stay at Walter Reed Army Medical Centre in Washington.

"I am feeling better every day, and all the good wishes of the many who have
written have certainly kept my spirits up," Lynch said.

"I am walking with crutches, but my doctors tell me that as I gain strength,
I will be able to walk on my own again soon. I am looking forward to those
first steps."

Bragg has written several books, including the memoir All Over but the
Shoutin’, and won the feature-writing Pulitzer in 1996, two years after he
began working for the New York Times.