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Informationen zum Autor Henry Kissinger was the fifty-sixth Secretary of State. Born in Germany, Dr. Kissinger came to the United States in 1938 and was naturalized a US citizen in 1943. He served in the US Army in Europe in World War Two and attended Harvard University on a scholarship, where he later became a member of the faculty. Among the awards he has received are the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Medal of Liberty. He passed away in 2023 at the age of 100 at his home in Connecticut. Klappentext The Definitive AccountMany other authors have written about what they thought happened -- or thought should have happened -- in Vietnam, but it was Henry Kissinger who was there at the epicenter, involved in every decision from the long, frustrating negotiations with the North Vietnamese delegation to America's eventual extrication from the war. Now, for the first time, Kissinger gives us in a single volume an in-depth, inside view of the Vietnam War, personally collected, annotated, revised, and updated from his bestselling memoirs and his book Diplomacy.Here, Kissinger writes with firm, precise knowledge, supported by meticulous documentation that includes his own memoranda to and replies from President Nixon. He tells about the tragedy of Cambodia, the collateral negotiations with the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, the disagreements within the Nixon and Ford administrations, the details of all negotiations in which he was involved, the domestic unrest and protest in the States, and the day-to-day military to diplomatic realities of the war as it reached the White House. As compelling and exciting as Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August, Ending the Vietnam War also reveals insights about the bigger-than-life personalities -- Johnson, Nixon, de Gaulle, Ho Chi Minh, Brezhnev -- who were caught up in a war that forever changed international relations. This is history on a grand scale, and a book of overwhelming importance to the public record. Zusammenfassung Henry Kissinger's book is a formidable and unapologetic response from the man who was at the very heart and centre of American policy-making, privy to every secret, and single-handedly responsible for the negotiations which brought America's role in Vietnam to an ambivalent end. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsForeword1. America's Entry into the Morass (1950-1969)2. Evolution of a StrategyWhat the Nixon Administration Found ? Groping for a Strategy: The North Vietnamese Offensive and the Bombing of Cambodia ? Attempts at a Diplomatic Outcome ? Peace Initiatives ? The Beginning of Troop Withdrawals ? A Secret Meeting ? Another Reassessment ? The Unpacifiable Doves ? A Strategy Emerges3. Secret Negotiations and a Widening WarThe Secret Negotiations ? Special Advisor Le Duc Tho and the First Round of Talks ? Laos Interlude ? The Overthrow of Sihanouk ? Another Major Troop Withdrawal ? The Attack on North Vietnamese Sanctuaries ? The Cambodian Incursion ? The Domestic Travail ? The Balance Sheet4. Diplomacy and Strategy: From a Cease-fire Proposal to the Interdiction of the Ho Chi Minh TrailMadame Binh's Eight Points ? The Setting of a Strategy ? The Laos Operation ? Lam Son 719: The Military Operation ? Braving Domestic Opposition ? The Negotiations Are Resumed ? The South Vietnamese Presidential Election ? Revealing the Secret Talks5. Hanoi Throws the Dice: The Vietnam Spring OffensiveDiplomatic Maneuvers ? What Strategy?6. The ShowdownThe May 2 Secret Meeting ? The Mining and Bombing of North Vietnam ? The Summit in the Balance7. From Stalemate to BreakthroughTesting the Stalemate ? A Visit to Saigon ? Interlude: Meetings of September 15 and 27 ? The Breakthrough: The October 8 Meeting8. The Troubled Road to PeaceInterlude in Paris ? Consultation with Thieu ? Rumblings ? Showdown with Thieu ? The Journey Home9. "Peace Is at Hand"Election Interlude ? Haig Visits Saigon Again ? The Meetings w...
