Awards

• Commended for Benjamin Franklin Award (New Age) 2011
• Commended for Benjamin Franklin Award (Religion) 2011

Overview

War exposes the divide between who we think we are and how we behave in extreme situations. Sheri Snively, who served as a Quaker chaplain with the U.S. Navy, has crafted a vivid, unsettling, and ultimately hopeful personal account of the effects of the Iraq war on soldiers and civilians in Heaven in the Midst of Hell. As she served with the Marines working amid the boredom, ten-sion, and seemingly meaningless carnage at a trauma hospital between Ramadi and Fallujah, Commander Snively experienced first-hand the grim reality of combat. As she recounts the way she and the soldiers around her experience war, she negotiates a compassionate path to healing -- marked not by formulaic answers, but by an open and ques-tioning spirit. Illustrated with the author's own evocative photographs, this is a compelling and unforgettable journey into the human soul.

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A Quaker Chaplain writing about war? I couldnt imagine it, but I agreed to review the book. What a blessing. The book is beautiful: in design and in content. With eight Marines, Commander Sheri Snively deployed to Iraq to serve in a trauma hospital and morgue between Ramadi and Fallujah. She records the journey in vivid detail. Snively took photographs and kept a journal. She writes of impressions of war as she experienced it. She wrestled with the issue of war. As a Quaker, she believed in peace. Together she and her Marines faced life, death, the carnage of war and the effects of PTSD. Snively shares the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the questions for which there are no answers. - Jim Greenwald, Lead Reviewer, The Military Writers Society of America

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