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Written by Michael R. Gordon & Bernard E. Trainor - Audio book narrated by Craig Wasson - Abridged Nonfiction - 8 COMPACT DISCS - 9 hours

Publisher, Random House Audio (March 2006)

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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.

Cobra II 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.

Cobra II is an audiobook of enduring importance and incisive analysis—a comprehensive account of the most reported yet least understood war in American history.

About the Authors: 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 E Kennedy School of Government from 1990 to 1996. Currently a military analyst for NBC, Trainor lives in Potomac Falls, Virginia.

About the Narrator: Craig Wasson's film credits include starring roles in Puerto Vallarta Squeeze, Four Friends, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination, and Body Double. He also co-starred in the critically acclaimed television series Skag.