Kissinger: Volume I, 1923-1968 : the idealist

Book I. Heimat ; Escape ; Fürth on the Hudson ; An unexpected private ; The living and the dead ; In the ruins of the Reich

Book II. The idealist ; Psychological warfare ; Doctor Kissinger ; Strangelove? ; Boswash

Book III. The intellectual and the policy maker ; Flexible responses ; Facts of life ; Crisis

Book IV. The road to Vietnam ; The unquiet American ; Dirt against the wind

Book V. The anti-Bismarck ; Waiting for Hanoi ; 1968 ; The unlikely combination

Epilogue: A Bildungsroman.