Is it possible to draw the fate of the world on the phone? Henry Kissinger gives an affirmative answer to this question in his new book "The Crises". An anatomy of two major foreign policy crises, written on the basis of unpublished transcripts of telephone conversations. It was as if the great American politician had said everything about the Yomkipur War in the Middle East and the final withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam in his previously published memoirs, but his new book reveals curious unknown intrigues in the great world politics of the period 1973-1975.