亨利·基辛格（英文：Henry Alfred Kissinger，1923年5月27日－），是一位出生于德国的美国犹太人、哈佛大学博士、教授，与越南人黎德寿一同为1973年诺贝尔和平奖获得者，原美国国家安全顾问，后担任尼克松政府的国务卿并在水门事件之后继续在福特政府中担任此职（被称为“美国历史上最伟大的国务卿”），20世纪美国最著名的外交家、国际问题专家，中国人民的老朋友。作为一位现实政治的支持者，1971年7月，基辛格作为尼克松总统秘密特使访华，在美国外交政策中发挥了中心作用，为中美关系大门的开启作出了历史性贡献，他倡导缓和政策，使美苏之间紧张的关系得到缓解，他与毛泽东、周恩来、邓小平有过多次热情的会见，并在1972年和中华人民共和国总理周恩来的会谈中扮演了至关重要的角色，促成了中国的开放和新的战略性的反苏中美联盟的形成。

1973年1月，基辛格在巴黎完成了结束越南战争的谈判，并因此获得诺贝尔和平奖。 2006年10月北京大学授予基辛格名誉博士学位。主要著作有《论中国》、《大外交》、《基辛格越战回忆录》、《基辛格美国的全球战略》、《白宫岁月》《复兴年代》等。

慕羽，跨政治文化研究舞蹈学博士、北京舞蹈学院副教授、中国音乐剧研究会教学专业委员会委员。主要从事政治文化学跨学科研究，以及西方舞蹈和音乐剧等跨学科研究。主要著作有：《百老汇音乐剧》《西方音乐剧史》。

The Definitive Account Many other authors have written about what they thought happened -- or thought should have happened -- in Vietnam, but it was Henry Kissinger who was there at the epicenter, involved in every decision from the long, frustrating negotiations with the North Vietnamese delegation to America's eventual extrication from the war. Now, for the first time, Kissinger gives us in a single volume an in-depth, inside view of the Vietnam War, personally collected, annotated, revised, and updated from his bestselling memoirs and his book Diplomacy. Here, Kissinger writes with firm, precise knowledge, supported by meticulous documentation that includes his own memoranda to and replies from President Nixon. He tells about the tragedy of Cambodia, the collateral negotiations with the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, the disagreements within the Nixon and Ford administrations, the details of all negotiations in which he was involved, the domestic unrest and protest in the States, and the day-to-day military to diplomatic realities of the war as it reached the White House. As compelling and exciting as Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August, Ending the Vietnam War also reveals insights about the bigger-than-life personalities -- Johnson, Nixon, de Gaulle, Ho Chi Minh, Brezhnev -- who were caught up in a war that forever changed international relations. This is history on a grand scale, and a book of overwhelming importance to the public record.