New York Times chief military correspondent Michael R. Gordon was the only reporter embedded with the Allied land command in Iraq. As such, he was privy to interactions between General Tommy Franks, Donald Rumsfeld, and the field generals as they formulated and executed the war strategy. Gordon and General Bernard E. Trainor, past director of the National Security Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, teamed up to write Cobra 2, an authoritative, comprehensive, and unfiltered account of the prosecution of the war in Iraq. General Trainor and Mr. Gordon will appear with John Crawford, the soldier, whose memoir The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell, is a bold and uncompromising look at the Iraq war through the eyes of a young newlywed abruptly sent overseas with the National Guard.