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I am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story
by
Rick Bragg
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Rick Bragg lends his remarkable narrative skills to the story of the most famous POW this country has known.
In I Am a Soldier, Too, Bragg let’s Jessica Lynch tell the story of her capture in the Iraq War in her own words--not the sensationalized ones of the media's initial reports. Here we see how a humble rural upbr...more
In I Am a Soldier, Too, Bragg let’s Jessica Lynch tell the story of her capture in the Iraq War in her own words--not the sensationalized ones of the media's initial reports. Here we see how a humble rural upbr...more
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
November 9th 2004
by Vintage
(first published January 1st 2003)
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This is the story of Jessica Lynch, as told to Rick Bragg. Jessica is a small town West Virginia girl who decided to join the Army just out of high school. Her decision was easy; she wanted to see the world, get a college education, come back home and be a kindergarten teacher. Jessica's story captured the minds and hearts of the world, but the story told was not entirely factual and until this point was not told by Jessi herself. Through media, here say and Governmental sensationalism her story...more
I had heard about Jessica Lynch some time ago and when I came across the book decided I would give it a try. It's the story of this girl's courage and fortitude when she was made a POW in Iraq.
Back Cover Blurb:
On March 23, 2003, Private First Class Jessica Lynch was crossing the Iraqi desert with the 507th Maintenance Company when the convoy she was travelling in was ambushed, caught in enemy cross fire. All four soldiers travelling with her died in the attack. Lynch, one of the most famous POW'...more
Back Cover Blurb:
On March 23, 2003, Private First Class Jessica Lynch was crossing the Iraqi desert with the 507th Maintenance Company when the convoy she was travelling in was ambushed, caught in enemy cross fire. All four soldiers travelling with her died in the attack. Lynch, one of the most famous POW'...more
Rick Bragg can be wonderful but this book is a potboiler written for quick cash. Bragg evokes the predictable theme of "down home country girl comes home from war to the hearty embrace of her simple salt of the earth family and friends." It's an appealing cliche but Bragg is more interesting and more believable when he probes the darker aspects of rural America.
By adhering so closely to his made to sell theme, Bragg ignores the more interesting questions. Why did the convey's mission go so fata...more
By adhering so closely to his made to sell theme, Bragg ignores the more interesting questions. Why did the convey's mission go so fata...more
Really enjoyed the book. It makes me sick to find out that she was beaten up so bad that the doctors thought she had been shot, and that she was sexually anally abused. This abuse went on for three hours which fortunately Jessica has no recollection. It was heartwarming the compassion she received from doctors and nurses once she was transferred from Iraq military hospital to a civilian hospital. She was acutally on the operating table about to get her leg amputated for propaganda purposes. She...more
full of patriotic mish mash but then also has a drescription of the wounds she recieved that her mind doesnt remember the torture she was put through. pretty sad that humans can do things like this to other humans and be proud of it! ahhh religious wars...
the worst part of this story is that the whole country (if not world) focused on the one person who survived and almost totally ignored those other people who died in this attack. her best friend was in the vehicle with her and after all was do...more
the worst part of this story is that the whole country (if not world) focused on the one person who survived and almost totally ignored those other people who died in this attack. her best friend was in the vehicle with her and after all was do...more
I don't often read war stories. They don't really capture my attention often, but this one was different. I suppose since war, army, etc. interests me outside of novels, kind of helped when I gave a novel about those things a shot. I loved that Jessica is from my home state. I also loved that it was a war novel about a woman; and it was all based on a true story.
Other than that, I found that it was kind of slow at times, but I have successfully read this story twice. When reading you just have t...more
Other than that, I found that it was kind of slow at times, but I have successfully read this story twice. When reading you just have t...more
Jan 31, 2010
Rayni
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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It jumped out at me.
I added a "war" bookshelf just for this book. I wish Goodreads would give us a choice of half stars & I would have given it 4.5 stars. This was a real eye-opener & Bragg did a great job of reporting it.
It's amazing how the media can twist the truth. Bragg did a wonderful job of correcting those errors & in his reporting made it a "good" read. In a M*A*S*H episode Major Frank Burns said, "We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear." The 507th Mai...more
It's amazing how the media can twist the truth. Bragg did a wonderful job of correcting those errors & in his reporting made it a "good" read. In a M*A*S*H episode Major Frank Burns said, "We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear." The 507th Mai...more
a good reminder of what our military faces and how grateful i am for them.
while i am in my warm home, brave soldiers, like jessica lynch are putting their lives on the line.
all the reports i had heard and read about this incident were quite different from the actual happenings.
i enjoyed the authors reading on the cd too, he has a great southern voice, perfect for this story.
while i am in my warm home, brave soldiers, like jessica lynch are putting their lives on the line.
all the reports i had heard and read about this incident were quite different from the actual happenings.
i enjoyed the authors reading on the cd too, he has a great southern voice, perfect for this story.
I could not stop turning the pages of this book that depicts America's ill equiped invasion into Iraq. Jessica Lynch tells a moving story about her capture and subsequent rescue from American troops. She adds in a subtle way the account of the Bush invasion as fighting his daddy's war. Made me cry, could have been one of my daughters.
Nothing special. Ms. Lynch was doing her job, and was taken hostiage. Over all she was not miss treated and they were trying to treat her injuries when the USA found her. Over all the book was poorly done. I wish she would have writen her own book, then I would have been a little less harsh.
I'd have never read this sensationalized story about a POW from West Virginia who becomes a propaganda pawn in the Iraqi War, but Rick Bragg is a GREAT storyteller and his down-to-earth style makes for a simple, moving, honest portrayal of this young woman's ordeal Very well done.
Oct 11, 2012
Brianna L.
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
first-quarter-7th-grade
I Am a Soilder, Too.
Autobiography
Rick Bragg
Jessica Lynch, a 19-year old girl who joins the 507th (army) is captured by Iraq after her humvee crashes. Her and her best friend, Lori Piestewa, get taken to a Iraq hospital. They get cared for but Lori dies of a bad head injurie and Jessi only had use of one arm. eventually Jessi is rescued and taken back to her home. She is in rehibilitation and is slowly learning how to walk again.
This story makes me feel deeper for the army. Listening to the sad a...more
Autobiography
Rick Bragg
Jessica Lynch, a 19-year old girl who joins the 507th (army) is captured by Iraq after her humvee crashes. Her and her best friend, Lori Piestewa, get taken to a Iraq hospital. They get cared for but Lori dies of a bad head injurie and Jessi only had use of one arm. eventually Jessi is rescued and taken back to her home. She is in rehibilitation and is slowly learning how to walk again.
This story makes me feel deeper for the army. Listening to the sad a...more
Not as good as the biography of the irac man that saved her. I can't remember his name. This shoud not have happened. I'm glad to hear that she has since recovered, married and had a child.
I was very interested in what happened to Jessica, but most of the book was about her civilian life. I was glad to read that part too but it was not her writing but rather a telling of her story. It was good, but not enough details to any of her service. I am glad I read it, and am proud of her, and all our soldiers.
I thought this was a good book. I read it in a day becuase it was hard to put down once you start and get into it. It shows what a strong and brave young woman Jessica Lynch is
Good writing. The most interesting part of this story, in my opinion, was how Jessica's home town rallied around to support her family and pray for her. There were other parts of the book that dragged.
Aug 13, 2011
Ginny Tata-Phillips
added it
Had Rick Bragg not written this, it would not have been as readable - he is wonderful - not sure about her.
Jessica may never have fired a shot but she is definitely a hero. The author was maybe a little 'dramatic' in his description of her hometown and the people there but he really made me feel like I knew Jessica and her humble heart. Great story.
This is a very touching story. It's true, and quite amazing of this girl!
This book disappointed me. I believe Rick is best at telling his own story.
Good book. Jessica Lynch story. tells what really happened.
Such a good book and an eye-opener
I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story - Rick Bragg (Alfred A. Knopf 2003)Biography, is the story of a petite blond female POW in Iraq who was injured while riding in an armored vehicle, taken prisoner, and then sexually assaulted. The army bent over backwards to locate a trooper to annoint as the politically correct hero of the day, whose best friend was a Hopi Indian single mother and whose love interest was Hispanic. Ricky Bragg, I've been moved by your other work; I just hope you were...more
So this book has special appeal to me. I am from a small town in West Virginia AND I was a solder in the 1980s when the idea of women in uniform was a huge deal. I'm not sure why I took so long to read it but finally got around to it. It's not a literary page turner, just the story of a small town girl, her terrifying ordeal as a prisoner of war and how her family and her community rallied around her when she came home. It made me especially proud to be a female vet and a native of small town Am...more
A very touching book.
She is a brave woman. A hero? robably no, but a survivor and an admirable, honest person. She has a child now and is working for her college degree.
heartbreaking.
Mindless.
This book gave me incite to today's military and not my father's military. Touches the heart, as I'm also a girl who grew up in a rural community and value the same things she did/does. Her experience is humbling to us who take for granted many things. I only gave 3 stars, bc I didn't really care for the way the book was written by the author--choppy, short, and hard for me to find a flow. But Jessica picked him to write her book, so who am I to criticize??
I had heard about Jessica and her story briefly in the news some years ago, but was glad I finally got to read the whole thing. It is really amazing all that she went through and what got her through it was her determination to live. Unfortunately, the book is not really clear on what Jessica’s faith is comprised of, but I have no doubt after reading this that God had/has a special plan for her life. There is some language in the book.
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Rick Bragg is the Pulitzer Prize winning writer of best-selling and critically acclaimed books on the people of the foothills of the Appalachians, All Over but the Shoutin, Ava's Man, and The Prince of Frogtown.
Bragg, a native of Calhoun County, Alabama, calls these books the proudest examples of his writing life, what historians and critics have described as heart-breaking anthems of people usual...more
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