Helen Benedict’s 2009 nonfiction book, The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq, revealed not only what it was like to be a woman at war, but the abusive treatment of women who served in Iraq between 2003 and 2006 by their fellow soldiers and supervisors, including rape and gang rape. This book inspired the 2012 documentary The Invisible War. Both The Lonely Soldier and The Invisible War were in the forefront of reporting on this injustice.