README.txt explained
README.txt: A Memoir is a 2022 memoir by Chelsea Manning. It covers her early life, experience as a soldier in the U.S. Army, and life and imprisonment after she leaked classified information to WikiLeaks.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
In the memoir, she explains that her boss, in late 2009, had recommended a State Department Net-Centric Diplomacy portal with its "trove of diplomatic cables" as possibly "useful to us in our analytical work. I read every single one that related to Iraq, and then began to poke around in the rest of the database..." On February 21, 2010, she leaked "what would become known as the 'Collateral Murder' tape, which showed grainy aerial footage from July 2007 of an Apache helicopter air strike gone horribly wrong."[6]
Reviews
Writing for The New York Times, reviewer Margaret Sullivan characterised the prose as "vivid", with the tale that is told being "troubling to read" yet "uplifting as well". She concludes that the work is also quite a "frightening imaginary tale".[7] In his review for The Guardian, Stuart Jeffries states that he believes that it "takes extraordinary qualities to do some of the things she recounts in this book", ultimately concluding that "Chelsea Manning has become a new kind of American heroine".[8]
Notes and References
- Web site: Sullivan . Margaret . Why Chelsea Manning Went to WikiLeaks, and What It Cost Her . . October 18, 2022 . November 12, 2022 . November 12, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221112122435/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/18/books/review/chelsea-manning-readme-txt-memoir.html . live .
- News: Rosenberg . Jordy . A memoir in which everything is classified and nothing is secret . . October 18, 2022 . November 12, 2022 . October 21, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221021233505/https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/10/18/chelsea-manning-readme-memoir-review/ . live .
- Web site: Parkin . Simon . README.txt by Chelsea Manning review – secrets and spies . . October 27, 2022. November 12, 2022 .
- Web site: README.txt . . October 16, 2022 . November 12, 2022 . August 30, 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240830231846/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/like-dislike/2000232414/ . live .
- Web site: Deery . Phillip . 2022-12-18 . Chelsea Manning's memoir is gripping, but you're barred from reading it all . 2022-12-19 . The Sydney Morning Herald . en.
- Book: Manning, Chelsea . README.txt . Farrar, Straus and Giroux . 2022 . 9781473564121.
- Web site: Why Chelsea Manning Went to WikiLeaks, and What It Cost Her. Margaret. Sullivan. October 18, 2022. NYTimes.com. November 12, 2022. November 12, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221112122435/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/18/books/review/chelsea-manning-readme-txt-memoir.html. live.
- Web site: README.txt by Chelsea Manning review – the analyst who altered history. Stuart. Jeffries. October 24, 2022. The Guardian. August 29, 2024. August 30, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240830231720/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/oct/24/readmetxt-by-chelsea-manning-review-analyst-who-altered-history-army-whistleblower. live.
