War of Numbers: An Intelligence Memoir of the Vietnam War's Uncounted Enemy (Truth to Power). This item is unavailable.War of Numbers: An Intelligence Memoir of the Vietnam War's Uncounted Enemy (Truth to Power)

In this classic eyewitness memoir, Sam Adams reveals what fundamentally went wrong for the US and its allies, and why the Vietnam War was never 'winnable'. Adam's insistence on telling the truth about what really happened - the military attempts to hide the true size of the enemy forces there - caused an ungodly ruckus in both Washington and Saigon at the time. Years later, having quit the CIA in disgust, Adams brought his story back up to the surface in a TV documentary which eventually resulted in a notorious trial on libel charges brought by General William Westmoreland. After leaving the CIA, Adams sat down to write an account of his life at the agency. A gripping cautionary tale about the perils of politicising and manipulating honest intelligence, the book has become a classic of American non-fiction.

Sam Adams was a graduate of Harvard College and spent ten years as an analyst for the CIA. He was completing this memoir when he died of a heart attack in 1988.

Col. David Hackworth was the author of About Face and the youngest full Colonel in the US Army when he resigned in protest over the Vietnam War.

Dr. John Prados is a senior research fellow at the National Security Archive, where he also directs the Archive's Iraq Documentation Project and its Vietnam Project. His books Vietnam: The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945-1975, Keepers of the Keys and Combined Fleet Decoded were each nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.