Crisis

Henry Kissinger - an American statesman, diplomat, and expert in international politics, served as advisor to the American president for national security from 1969 to 1975 and as U.S. Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977. A Nobel Peace Prize laureate for 1973, Kissinger is one of the most authoritative political scientists in the world. During Dr. Kissinger's tenure in the administration of President Richard Nixon, there were regular printouts of transcripts of telephone conversations. Since 2001, the transcripts stored in the National Archives of the United States have become publicly available. These records and Henry Kissinger's comments convey the atmosphere in which important decisions were made and the nature of the relationships on which American policy was built. The book discusses two crises - the Arab-Israeli War in the Middle East in October 1973 and the final withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975.