Ending the Vietnam War

"The Definitive Account Many 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 a single in-depth inside view of the Vietnam War, personally collected, annotated, revised, and updated from his own bestselling memoirs. 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 realities of the war as it reached the White House. As compelling and exciting as Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August, Vietnam also reveals insights about the bigger-than-life personalities -- Johnson, Nixon, de Gaulle, Ho Chi Minh, Brezhnev -- who are caught up in a war that will forever change international relations. This is history on a grand scale, and a book of overwhelming importance to the public record. "