Crisis

The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises

By: Henry Kissinger

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Paperback | 2 August 2004 | Edition Number 1

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By drawing upon previously unpublished transcripts of his telephone conversations during the Yom Kippur War (1973) and the last days of the Vietnam War (1975), Henry Kissinger reveals what goes on behind the scenes at the highest levels in a diplomatic crisis.

The two major foreign policy crises in this book, one successfully negotiated, one that ended tragically, were unique in that they moved so fast that much of the work on them had to be handled by telephone.

The longer of the two sections deals in detail with the Yom Kippur War and is full of revelations, as well as great relevancy: In Kissinger's conversations with Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister; Simcha Dinitz, Israeli ambassador to the U.S.; Mohamed el-Zayyat, the Egyptian Foreign Minister; Anatoly Dobrynin, the Soviet Ambassador to the U.S.; Kurt Waldheim, the Secretary General of the U.N.; and a host of others, as well as with President Nixon, many of the main elements of the current problems in the Middle East can be seen.

The section on the end of the Vietnam War is a tragic drama, as Kissinger tries to help his president and a divided nation through the final moments of a lost war. It is full of astonishing material, such as Kissinger's trying to secure the evacuation of a Marine company which, at the very last minute, is discovered to still be in Saigon as the city is about to fall, and his exchanges with Ambassador Martin in Saigon, who is reluctant to leave his embassy.

This is a book that presents perhaps the best record of the inner workings of diplomacy at the superheated pace and tension of real crisis.

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"Captivating ... Kissinger's book offers readers a some-times uncomfortably close look at the world of high-stakes diplomacy."

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Non-Fiction Politics & Government International Relations History Regional & National History History of the Americas Asian History Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Post War 20th Century History after 1945 Military History Post WW2 Conflicts

Vietnam War General & World History

Introduction	p. 1
The Middle East War of 1973	p. 5
Setting a Strategy	p. 13
U.N. Minuet	p. 38
October 7, 1973	p. 84
October 8, 1973	p. 112
October 9, 1973: A New Situation: The Israeli Crisis, the Airlift, and Cease-fire Diplomacy	p. 143
October 10, 1973	p. 161
October 11, 1973	p. 179
October 12, 1973	p. 194
October 13, 1973	p. 215
October 14, 1973	p. 248
October 15-16, 1973	p. 259
October 17, 1973	p. 273
October 18, 1973	p. 283
October 19, 1973	p. 291
October 20-22, 1973	p. 302
October 23-27, 1973: The U.S. Alert and the End of the Crisis	p. 306
The Last Month of Indochina	p. 419
The Beginning of the End	p. 427
Sihanouk Interlude	p. 458
Implementation of Evacuation	p. 464
Acknowledgments	p. 545
Index	p. 547
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