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The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
Pantheon
March 2006
640 pages
ISBN: 0375422625
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
There have been many reports about the Iraq war and the
vicissitudes of the American occupation, yet none heretofore
has been informed by the inside story. Rendered fairly and
documented impressively, it offers a galvanizing account of
the strategy, the personalities, the actual battles, the
diplomacy, the adversary, and the occupation. COBRA II is stunning work of investigative journalism by
Michael Gordon, the chief military correspondent of The New
York Times, winner of the George Polk Award for
Investigative Reporting in 1989 and the one and only
correspondent embedded in Allied land command; and General
Bernard E. Trainor, former military correspondent for The
New York Times and current military analyst for NBC.
Brimming with new and compromising disclosures, the book
promises to be a singularly authoritative and comprehensive
account of the planning and prosecution of the Iraq war. Michael Gordon had unparallel access to top military brass
and was in the war room with Tommy Franks, Donald Rumsfeld
and the field generals who were key in the formulation and
execution of the war strategy. He has interviewed an
extraordinary range of officials, including Franks himself,
Condoleezza Rice, Steve Hadley, Paul Wolfowitz, Marc
Grossman (the third ranking State Department official),
Jerry Bremer, General Meyers (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff), as well as virtually every general, regimental
commander and brigade commander. He has had access to
classified military and diplomatic documents, military
archives and internal after-action reports and oral
histories not meant for public consumption.
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