The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq

The Lonely Soldier—the inspiration for the documentary The Invisible War—vividly tells the stories of five women who fought in Iraq between 2003 and 2006—and 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 wit...