The Iraq War: History and Memoirs
Explore the Iraq War through powerful memoirs and history. Discover firsthand accounts in Heaven in the Midst of Hell and Once a Marine by Nick Popaditch, offering personal insights into the conflict.
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Heaven in the Midst of Hell
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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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War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars
by Haass, Richard N.
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Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commander's War in Iraq (Yale Library of Military History)
by Mansoor, Peter R.
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Once a Marine
by Nick Popaditch
Known as "The cigar marine" from an AP photograph taken April 9, 2003, this is the story of Gunnery Sergeant Nick Popaditch from his tours in Iraq, to his injuries which left him legally blind and partially deaf, and to his struggle to remain a true marine.