Her role in exposing US Iraq war secrets saw her jailed for seven years, and she promises ‘a book about trials, tribunals, struggles, difficulties’ and her love life
Chelsea Manning will reveal the details of how and why she decided to send hundreds of thousands of classified military documents to WikiLeaks, in a memoir due early next year.
The as-yet unnamed book will see Manning write about what publisher The Bodley Head described as her “challenging childhood” and her “struggles as an adolescent”. It will also delve into why she decided to join the army, as well as how, when she was working as an intelligence analyst for US forces in Iraq in 2010, she smuggled out 720,000 classified military documents on the memory card of her digital camera and sent them to WikiLeaks.
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