Henry Kissinger - Years of Upheaval by Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger - Years of Upheaval by Henry Kissinger SIGNED FIRST EDITION.

Hard Cover.  In good condition.  Dust Jacket laminated in good condition.  Page of signature has break in the two pages (see photo). 

Published in 1982 by George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd., London. 1283 pages. 63 illustrations. 15 maps.

"In Years of Upheaval, Henry Kissinger recalls the turbulent years of the second Administration of Richard Nixon, which began on 20 January 1973.  Two momentous events and their consequences dominate this account: the Watergate scandal, and the 1973 October war in the Middle East.

The book opens at the Western White House on a summer afternoon in August of that year, when Dr Kissinger is told by the President during a poolside conversation that he is to become Secretary of State.  The memories that follow are a rich compendium of his experiences in the months before and after appointment: an eerie trip to Hanoi shortly after the Vietnam ceasefire; efforts to settle the war in Cambodia; two Nixon-Brezhnev summits and the controversy over detente; the Shah of Iran'; the oil crises and the efforts to overcome it; the US airlift to Israel and the military alert during the middle East war; the origins of shuttle diplomacy; the fall of Salvador Allende in Chile' and the events surrounding Nixon's resignation..."

Taken from Dust Jacket of Book.