The Lonely Soldierthe inspiration for the documentary The Invisible Warvividly tells the stories of five women who fought in Iraq between 2003 and 2006and of the challenges they faced while fighting a war painfully alone.More American women have fought and died in Iraq than in any war since World War Two, yet as soldiers they are still painfully alone. In Iraq, only one in ten troops is a woman, and she often serves in a unit with few other women or none at all. This isolation, along with the militarys deepseated hostility toward women, causes problems that many female soldiers find as hard to cope with as war itself degradation, sexual persecution by their comrades, and loneliness, instead of the camaraderie that every soldier depends on for comfort and survival. As one female soldier said, "I ended up waging my own war against an enemy dressed in the same uniform as mine."In The Lonely Soldier, Benedict tells the stories of five women who fought in Iraq between 2003 and 2006. She follows them from their childhoods to their enlistments, then takes them through their training, to war and home again, all the while setting the wars events in context. We meet Jen, white and from a workingclass town in the heartland, who still shakes from her wartime traumas Abbie, who rebelled against a household of liberal Democrats by enlisting in the National Guard Mickiela, a Mexican American who grew up with a family entangled in L.A. gangs Terris, an African American mother from D.C....

Binding: Paperback;280 pages; Publisher: Beacon Press; Classification: JFFE2; Weight: 492 g; Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 22

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