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Ms Lynch began the publicity trail with a Sunday night telemovie, Saving Jessica Lynch.

Yesterday she and fellow PoW Shoshana Johnson were at Glamour magazine's awards night where they were named Women of the Year.

The 20-year-old has also recorded an interview with Diane Sawyer.

Other TV spots include Today, Larry King Live and The Late Show with David Letterman, and she is on the cover of Time.

The publicity frenzy peaked when one magazine was rumoured to have topless photos of Ms Lynch before she went to the war.

The media blitz is all about the release of her book, I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story, written by Rick Bragg, a former New York Times writer.

But while Ms Lynch became a national celebrity, other war veterans are crying foul.

Ms Johnson, who was shot during her capture. now gets a disability pension that is just of fraction of that being paid to Ms Lynch.

Veterans' families question why Ms Lynch has won all the attention while soldiers such as Pat Miller, who killed eight Iraqis in the ambush, have faded into the background.

And Donald Walters' parents had to lodge a Freedom of Information request to find out exactly how their son died in the attack.

But Ms Lynch, whose injuries in the ambush were so horrific she cannot walk unaided, lays no claim to being a hero.