An extraordinarily brave and moving memoir from one of the world's most famous whistle-blowers, activists and trans women.
In 2010 Chelsea Manning, working as an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army in Iraq, disclosed 720,000 classified military documents that she had smuggled out via the memory card of her digital camera.
Gripping ... It takes extraordinary qualities to do some of the things she recounts in this book ... Manning has become a new kind of American heroine
Electrifying ... an insider confessional turned inside out for the 21st century ... Manning reckons with this complex relationship of sex and gender to political radicalism ...
absorbing ...
sublimeOne of the bravest persons aliveA terrific read, full of unexpected turns and details that counter many of the assumptions made about Manning at the time ... Opens
like a Jason Bourne novelChelsea Manning is
the biggest hero that ever livedChelsea Manning is an American transparency activist, politician and former US Army intelligence analyst. She lives in Brooklyn and works as a security consultant and expert in data science and machine learning. She has written for the Guardian and New York Times and tweets @xychelsea.