Kissinger's face-to-face book addresses some of the most difficult questions of our time ... His pages shine with the visionary Simon Schama in New York, which extends for more than three centuries, from Cardinal Richelieu to the fragility of the 'New World Order'.

Diplomacy is the current classical history of international relations by Former Secretary of State and Nobel laureate. Kissinger's intimate pictures of world leaders, many of them with personal experience, provide the reader with a unique insight into what is really going on - and why - behind the closed doors of the corridors of power.

Diplomats and emerging politicians should read it as read by their predecessors, Machiavelli Douglas Hurd, at the Daily Telegraph. "If you want to pay someone a compliment, give it to Henry Kissinger Diplomacy ...

It's certainly one of the best, most enjoyable [books] About international relations in the past and present ... The diploma should be read for pure historical sweep, profiling, storytelling, the ability to look at large parts of the world as a whole "Malcolm Rutherford in the Financial Times.