Hissing Cobra

I am about halfway through Cobra 2, which is an excellent, if lengthy, read. It is probably over detailed for some. Some of the battle scenes get confusing, especially as they develop. There are a good number of maps, but they are all in the front of the book. Since the war isn't over it won't be the classic book of the conflict, but it may be one of the best we have to date. In a review for the (leftist) Nation (conservative) Andrew Bacevich has a great review of the book. It's so detailed that you can get a lot of the book's points in the review. I think his basic assessment is spot on:

It should be read as a study of the politics of war. Although Gordon and Trainor describe in stirring detail the celebrated ‘march on Baghdad’, their real contribution has been to identify the confluence of factors that inspired the march, shaped it, and produced consequences very different from those expected.