"A Council on Foreign Relations book."

The Strategy -- Gaining Control -- The Jordan Crisis -- A Failure of Imagination -- Resupply -- Cease-fire -- DEFCON 3 -- Golda's Inferno -- Henry of Arabia -- "A Time for Peace" -- The Sinai Disengagement -- "Ploughing the Ocean" -- Breakthrough -- The Step Not Taken -- Breakdown -- Reassessment -- Denouement

"A perceptive and provocative history of Henry Kissinger's diplomatic negotiations in the Middle East that illuminates the unique challenges and barriers Kissinger and his successors have faced in their attempts to broker peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors"--