Years of upheaval / Henry Kissinger .

With hard-and supercover

To Nancy

Index: p. 284-1281

Cont.: A moment of hope -- A visit to Hanoi -- China: Another step forward -- The gathering impact of watergate -- The year of Europe -- The middle east in ferment -- Detente: Zavidovo to San Clemente -- Indochina: The beginning of the end -- Chile: The fall of Salvador Allende -- Becoming secretary of state -- The Middle East War -- Moscow, the Cease-fire, and the alert -- First middle east Breakthrough -- Persian gulf interlude -- The eclipse of Zhou Enlai and another talk with Mao -- Troubles with allies -- The Geneva conference -- The first shuttle: Egyptian-Israeli disengagement -- The energy crisis -- Energy and the democracies -- The road to Damascus: An exploratory shuttle -- The decline of Detente: A turning point -- The Syrian shuttle -- The last Hurrah -- The end of the administration.

"Kissinger recalls ... the second administration of Richard Nixon ... the Watergate scandal ... the 1973 October war in the Middle East ... Year of Europe; two Nixon-Brezhnev summits and the controversy over detente; the Shah of Iran; the oil crisis and the effort to overcome it ... the US airlift to Israel and military alert; the origins of shuttle diplomacy; the fall of Salvador Allende in Chile; and the events surrounding Nixon's resignation."