A year ago today young Private First Class Jessica Lynch was dramatically sprung from an Iraqi hospital where she had been taken after her capture.

THE authorised biography of Private Jessica Lynch debunks early myths that American troops waged a daring rescue to save her, and describes a team of Iraqi doctors as gentle caretakers who worked at their own risk to keep her alive.

Just one day after the NBC television network announced the cast for its film about the ordeal of Army Private Jessica Lynch, Lynch has withdrawn her co-operation.

THE American POW rescued