An extraordinarily brave and moving memoir from one of the world's most famous transparency
activists and trans women. In 2010 Chelsea Manning working as an intelligence analyst in the
United States Army in Iraq disclosed classified military documents that she had smuggled out
via the memory card of her digital camera. The army sentenced Manning to thirty-five years in
military prison charging her with twenty-two counts relating to the unauthorized possession
and distribution of classified military documents. The day after her conviction Manning
declared her gender identity as a woman and began to transition. In 2017 President Barack
Obama commuted her sentence and she was released from prison. In her memoir Manning recounts
how her pleas for increased institutional transparency and government accountability took place
alongside a fight to defend her rights as a trans woman. She reveals her challenging childhood
her struggles as an adolescent what led her to join the military and the fierce pride she
took in her work. We also learn the details of how and why she made the decision to send
classified military documents to WikiLeaks. This powerful observant memoir will stand as one
of the definitive testaments of the digital age. **CHOSEN AS A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK TO WATCH OUT
FOR A NEW STATESMAN BOOK TO READ AND ONE OF COSMOPOLITAN'S BEST FORTHCOMING BOOKS**
