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Summary: The story of the Iraq War's most famous soldier
Review: I have followed Jessica Lynch's story since it first broke and this book is a great read. It not only tells the story of a young woman who went off to war, but of her family and community who came together as a community when she was reported MIA. Her experience as a POW is a frightening one, but mixed with the terror is the compassion of several Iraqi doctors and medical personnel who took care of her and kept Jessi alive until US forces got information they needed to free her from a living nightmare. Her family's joy at her rescue from captivity is tempered by the extent of her injuries and the realization that she apparently was tortured before her treatment in the Iraqi hospital, something that Jessi does not remember, but the injuries tell the story. Her continued recovery and her story is an inspiration to many, and her rescue, despite critics, is a tribute to the military's credo: Never Leave a Fallen Comrade in Enemy Hands.
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Summary: OK but kind of dull
Review: This is an OK book but considering the subject matter, I found it pretty dull. Bragg went for the easy stuff and bought into the pretty picture Jessica's family fed him. I agree with the below reviewer. Homer Hickam, or some West Virginia writer, should have written this. Bragg just doesn't understand the dark side to Jessica's family and it's staring him right in the face.
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Summary: Fiction dressed as fact
Review: Jessica Lynch is desperate to cash in on her ten minutes of fame. So, now she's claiming she was raped - although she has no memory of it - and in spite doctor's reports that say there were no signs of sexual assault. I'm just waiting for her next book, "I Was Abducted By Aliens, Too".
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Summary: the press machine does it again
Review: I have to tread lightly on the following statements I feel need to be made.....yet at the same time want to express exactly the purpose behind this book...
First off, as Jessica said , not only in her book, but also in her made for TV movie, she is not a hero.
If you check the tactical information sent to the rear elements during the day that the unit was ambushed, you might be surprised to know they actually were lost. Getting lost then having to be saved does not constitute the need to put well train troops into harms way.
Did any of the men who rescued Jessica get to end their military contracts, and then again would they? Would a "real soldier" forsake the country that they loved and take an early seperation ...clearly knowing that monies would be flowing in from the folks that are looking for a story to read as they hug their spouses and lite their fall fires...to both warm their homes but in buying the book, warm their hearts. Was this story released and delivered telling exactly what the real heros did?
No, if in fact it was, jessica would be but a side bar. The story of the troop who help back and destroyed the enemy that was trying to kill not only him but jessica also would be higher on the hero scale. The troops who woke in the dark of night, wrote their last letter to their wives and children and boarded a plane to go save jessica...those stories would be the ones that should have been mass marketed. Not a simple story of a troop who joined the service hoping to use the GI bill in the future; to eventually become lost in a vast desert to be saved by men who are still answering the call as you read this.
As far as those who gave their lives in the past . The men and woman who died in each war where the most glorious medal they ever were award was the Purple Heart. Does she real...and I guess all heads responsible from the Pentagon down to her CO must be asked...deserve the 'star? Was that in keeping of the highest military traditions? And if it was, we better mass produce them, and get one out to each member of the armed forces who ever took a step onto a battlefield.
But it's not her fault. In her hometown, sure, she's a hero. For the middle-aged couple serching for something to shed a tear about as they play along with a nightly gameshow, it's good for them too. But for the press and media of this fine country to search out and promote the actions to better the view of the war and the actions we were taking against a hostile and agressive coutry, well, again they made a mistake.
The same group that made a terrible mistake in the sixties and seventies by giving a cold shoulder to the proud military return from their work and duties in the drudgery and hell of vietnam are still trying to heal the wounds they inflicted during those years by promoting the sillyest of actions, and in doing so are only throwing more salt into the cuts they imposed long ago.
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: To be able to live being a POW, is just incredible. Jessica Lynch is a true soldier. She is not just a soldier, she is a fighter and she has faith. This book goes into detail about Jessica Lynch and her incredible story being a POW. I give this book 5 stars because it is impelling, it is just one book you cant miss. Very sad story.
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Summary: AWESOME ; US Soldier= Hero!!
Review: I LOVED this book, I have followed all her information since she was MIA, and I think it is awesome that she lived to tell the story! I think any person who enlists to serve our country is a HERO! As she says in her book, she doesnt think she is a Hero, she says everyone who helped save and care for her and rescued her are the real Heroes. God Bless her and her family. God Bless and watch over the ones still serving and bring them home. God Bless America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Kind of weak
Review: This was a kind of weak read. Bragg's sentences were so choppy they gave me a headache trying to read it. I think he was in too much of a hurry. I heard Homer Hickam was the other author Jessica considered. She maybe should have gone with him. He knows West Virginia and has a great writing style.
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Summary: A Survivior... Courageous... Determined... God Blees You.
Review: PFC. Jessica Lynch is a Survivor against all odds. This book in my opinnion is very well written and informative but not too revealing of her personal life.
I prayed the day she went missing and stayed glued to CNN. I cried the day she was rescued and thanked God for watching over her. She was only trying to make money to put herself through college and she was dealt the unthinkable for it. My heart and prayers go out to her everyday. I want only to wish her happiness, love, good health and recovery. She will never be what she was But she will make every effort to be that again some day. And I can only wish her comfort in knowing I & alot of the world will be cheering her on in our corners of the world.
God Bless you Jessica!
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Summary: No one could tell this tale better than Rick Bragg.
Review: Perhaps Jessica Lynch is a heroine, or perhaps she is--as she says--simply a survivor. Undoubtedly though, Miss Lynch is an ordinary young woman from West Virginia who underwent an extraordinary experience, not only in Iraq, but in the media glare that followed her capture and subsequent rescue. No writer is better suited to tell her tale than America's finest chronicler of ordinary people, Rick Bragg. If you enjoyed Bragg's previous books about his family members--Southerners who are the kinds of folk who don't usually get best-selling books written about them--you'll like this one too, regardless of your stance on the war in Iraq. Long after the spotlight fades from Miss Lynch and she resumes some semblace of a normal life, this book will still be read because Rick Bragg is such a fine writer. If you're avoiding this book because it's been hyped so much, you're probably pretty smart. Rick Bragg's understanding of the South and Southerners and his engaging style makes this well worth your time though.
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Summary: You should be so brave
Review: I think that everyone that has said something bad about Jessica Lynch should have gone and took her place fighting in the war. Her rescurers were brave also, but she is the one who watched her friends die in front of her and had to suffer all she did. I think that it's terrible that people are speaking of her badly.
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