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Saving Jessica Lynch |
Wednesday 12 November 2003 |
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She's been hailed as an all-American heroine, and she's doing the rounds of the talk show circuit promoting her new book which is published in America this week.
In March this year, Private Jessica Lynch, just 19 at the time, was ambushed and captured by the Iraqis and then dramatically rescued from an Iraqi hospital by the US military.
The Pentagon has been criticised for using her rescue for propaganda purposes, but how much can we learn from her reception about the attitude to women on the front line?
Janine di Giovanni, senior foreign correspondent with the Times and author of Madness Visible, a forthcoming book on war and Professor Joanna Bourke, professor of History at Birkbeck College in London join Jenni to discuss.
'I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story' by Rick Bragg and Jessica Lynch, published by Alfred A. Knopf; ISBN: 1400042577
An Intimate History of Killing by Joanna Bourke is published by Granta Books; ISBN: 186207321X
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