Henry A. Kissinger

Ending the Vietnam War

A History of America's Involvement in and Extrication from the Vietnam War

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Produktbeschreibung

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 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Seitenzahl: 640
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1024g
• ISBN-13: 9780743215329
• ISBN-10: 074321532X
• Artikelnr.: 21007167

Autorenporträt

Henry Kissinger Reading Line: Taken from his bestselling memoirs with new and updated material

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Foreword
1. America's Entry into the Morass (1950-1969)
2. Evolution of a Strategy
What 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
Emerges
3. Secret Negotiations and a Widening War
The 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 Sheet
4. Diplomacy and Strategy: From a Cease-fire Proposal to the Interdiction
of the Ho Chi Minh Trail
Madame 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 Talks
5. Hanoi Throws the Dice: The Vietnam Spring Offensive
Diplomatic Maneuvers What Strategy?
6. The Showdown
The May 2 Secret Meeting The Mining and Bombing of North Vietnam The
Summit in the Balance
7. From Stalemate to Breakthrough
Testing the Stalemate A Visit to Saigon Interlude: Meetings of
September 15 and 27 The Breakthrough: The October 8 Meeting
8. The Troubled Road to Peace
Interlude in Paris Consultation with Thieu Rumblings Showdown with
Thieu The Journey Home
9. "Peace Is at Hand"
Election Interlude Haig Visits Saigon Again The Meetings with Le Duc
Tho Resume The Breakdown of the Negotiations The Christmas Bombing
Negotiations Resume The January Round of Negotiations Thieu Relents
Peace at Last Postlude
10. A Visit to Hanoi
11. Enforcement and Aid
The Thieu Visit Watergate and Enforcement The Search for Peace in
Cambodia The Aborted Chinese Mediation The Negotiations Unravel
12. Ford and Vietnam
The Strangulation of South Vietnam Hanoi Resumes the Offensive The End
of the Road
13. The Collapse of Cambodia
The Myth of the Failure to Negotiate on Cambodia The Final Collapse
Final Note
14. The End of Vietnamar
The Debate over Evacuation The Search for a Political Solution The
Evacuation The Last Day
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Appendix
Notes
Index