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By Sam Adams
Sam Adams enjoyed intelligence paintings, and that enthusiasm shines all through this memoir of his years with the primary Intelligence employer. His profession used to be ruled via an epic fight over Vietnam -- over army makes an attempt to conceal the genuine dimension of the enemy forces there, and over the integrity of the intelligence strategy. Adams's insistence on telling the reality prompted an ungodly ruckus in either Washington and Saigon on the time, and years later, after the CIA had threatened to fireplace him (on 13 occasions!) and he had hand over the enterprise in disgust, Adams introduced his tale again as much as the outside extra loudly than ever in a CBS tv documentary which ultimately ended in a infamous trial on libel fees introduced through common William Westmoreland.
After leaving the CIA, Adams sat right down to write an account of his existence on the company. there's not anything else relatively just like the tale he tells.
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A second attack had driven in the 8th Brigade on the right, which enabled the Germans to get behind the two companies of the 13th King's Liverpool who were in the front line. These men fought to the end and were last seen standing on the parapet without a thought of surrender. At the same time a company of the Northumberland Fusiliers on their left shared their fate, save for one officer and twelve men who survived. The front line of the 8th Brigade had now ceased to exist, but the reserve line still held.
The division was worn to a shadow, and yet the moment that the German attack seemed to ease both they and the Fourth Division on their north advanced their front. In this single bloody day the Fifteenth Division lost 94 officers and 2223 men, but there can be no doubt that their action, with that of the Third Division and the Fourth on either side of them, was the main determining factor in the whole of this vast battle. C. of Colenso) with his Brigadiers, Hilliard, Allgood, and Lumsden, might well be proud of the way they held the pass.
Whilst these stirring events had been in progress in the south, the north of the line had slowly drawn back in order to preserve conformity. The Seventeenth Corps, as already stated, were to the west of Monchy, and the left of the Sixth Corps was on the line of Henin, where the Third Division occupied a strong defensive position. This was strongly attacked upon the forenoon of March 24, especially on the 8th Brigade front, which was the right of the line, the Germans swarming up from the south-east of Henin and trying hard to work up the Henin-Neuville-Vitasse road.