According to Pfc. Jessica Lynch's new biography, "I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story," the former prisoner of war may have been raped.

The book, told by Lynch and written by author Richard Bragg, quotes military medical records that say Lynch was a victim of sexual assault during her capture, although officials have said she has no memory of her ordeal.

"Jessi lost three hours. She lost them in the snapping bones, in the crash of the Humvee, in the torment her enemies inflicted on her after she was pulled from it," Bragg wrote, according to a report in Thursday's Daily News, which obtained a copy of the book.

"The records do not tell whether her captors assaulted her almost lifeless, broken body after she was lifted from the wreckage, or if they assaulted her and then broke her bones into splinters until she was almost dead," Bragg continued.

In an interview that airs Tuesday on Denver's 7, "Primetime's" Diane Sawyer talked with Lynch and her family about their reasoning for sharing information about the rape. They said they wanted to share the reality, not just selected parts of the story.

"The book does indeed cite some intelligence reports that she was treated brutally and a medical record that says, in the book, that she was a victim of a sodomizing rape," Sawyer said.

The book will be released Tuesday, which is Veterans Day.

Bragg declined to comment to The Associated Press.

Sawyer also addressed reports that Lynch's book casts doubt on the claim of an Iraqi lawyer, Muhammad al-Rehaief, that he helped U.S. Marines rescue Lynch.

"She says that he may indeed have helped her," Sawyer said. "If he did, she's grateful, but she simply does not remember him and she remembers most everybody that she spent time with during her hospital captivity."

Lynch, 20, was shipped to Kuwait in January with the 507th Maintenance Company. She was captured March 23 after her convoy was ambushed in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya. She was rescued from an Iraqi hospital April 1 by U.S. forces.

She plans to marry Army Sgt. Ruben Contreras, of Colorado Springs, in June. Lynch plans to be in Colorado with Contreras for Thanksgiving. The couple met almost two years ago at a Taco Bell near Fort Bliss, Texas, where they were stationed.

Bragg has written several books, including the memoir "All Over but the Shoutin'," and won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1996 while at The New York Times. He resigned from the Times in May after the newspaper suspended him over a story that carried his byline but was reported largely by a freelancer.