
The World According to Henry Kissinger
Jérémie Gallon’s biography charts how the German émigré’s realpolitik diplomacy continues to shape the international order
On 9 November 1944, on the sixth anniversary of Kristallnacht, a young American soldier called Henry Kissinger walked across the border into Nazi Germany, wearing the uniform of a foreign army in a land he had once called home. At the age of just 21, he was not even a quarter into the most remarkable of lives that ranged from the destruction of Europe to the rise of AI.
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