COBRA II: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE INVASION AND OCCUPATION OF IRAQ [INSCRIBED/SIGNED]

Gordon, Michael R. and Trainor, Bernard E.

ISBN 10: 0375422625 / ISBN 13: 9780375422621

Editore: Pantheon Books, New York, 2006

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Octavo, xxxii, 603 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine off-white and blue with copper, black and white lettering. Exterior has slight wear including mild soiling and faint age toning. Boards have very slight wear. Text block has mild wear including slight age toning to the edges. Illustrated. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Michael Gordon and signed by Bernard Trainor. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex, Column X. Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for international/expedited orders. Economy international shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates. 1407111. FP New Rockville Stock.

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• Titolo: COBRA II: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE INVASION AND OCCUPATION OF IRAQ [INSCRIBED/SIGNED]
• Editore: Pantheon Books, New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0375422625
• ISBN 13: 9780375422621
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: sovraccoperta
• Firmato: Autografato dall'autore
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Warfare and Conflict

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Informed by unparalleled access to still–secret documents, interviews with top field commanders, and a review of the military’s own internal after–action reports, Cobra II is the definitive chronicle of America’s invasion and occupation of Iraq—a conflict that could not be lost but one that the United States failed to win decisively. From the Pentagon to the White House to the American command centers in the field, the book reveals the inside story of how the war was actually planned and fought. Drawing on classified United States government intelligence, it also provides a unique account of how Saddam Hussein and his high command developed and prosecuted their war strategy.

Written by Michael R. Gordon, the chief military correspondent for The New York Times, who spent the war with the Allied land command, and Bernard E. Trainor, a retired Marine Corps lieutenant general and former director of the National Security Program at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cobra II traces the interactions among the generals, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and President George W. Bush. It dramatically reconstructs the principal battles from interviews with those who fought them, providing reliable accounts of the clashes waged by conventional and Special Operations forces. It documents with precision the failures of American intelligence and the mistakes in administering postwar Iraq.

Unimpeachably sourced, Cobra II describes how the American rush to Baghdad provided the opportunity for the virulent insurgency that followed. The brutal aftermath in Iraq was not inevitable and was a surprise to the generals on both sides; Cobra II provides the first authoritative account as to why. It is a book of enduring importance and incisive analysis—a comprehensive account of the most reported yet least understood war in American history.

Informazioni sull?autore

Michael R. Gordon is the chief military correspondent for The New York Times, where he has worked since 1985. He is the coauthor, with Lieutenant General Bernard E. Trainor, of The Generals’ War. He has covered the Iraq War, the American intervention in Afghanistan, the Kosovo conflict, the Russian war in Chechnya, the 1991 Persian Gulf War, and the American invasion of Panama. He lives in the Washington, D.C., area.

Bernard E. Trainor, a retired Marine Corps lieutenant general, was a military correspondent for The New York Times from 1986 to 1990. He was director of the National Security Program at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government from 1990 to 1996. Currently a military analyst for NBC, Trainor lives in Potomac Falls, Virginia.