Nasser's pre-1967 peace perception -- The paradox of Nasser's pan-Arab ideology and actions -- The Gaza dilemma -- The Bandung Conference -- The 1956 Suez War -- Nasser's Palestine policy during the 1960s -- The road to war -- Nasser's 1967 war defeat -- Egyptian attacks on westerners and Jews -- Nasser resigns and the collusion myth -- Nasser's toleration of the "big lie" -- Nasser resumes as president -- The Chinese-Egyptian-Soviet triangle -- Israel's post-war position -- Nasser's responses to United Nations proposals -- Nasser reshuffles his cabinet -- The Soviet proposal -- The American proposal -- The Albanian proposal -- Israel annexes the old city -- The non-aligned proposal -- The Latin American proposal -- The Pakistani proposal -- UN indecision -- Clandestine meetings at the United Nations -- The Salah Nasir note -- The sincerity of negotiations -- Gromyko's first series of talks with Fawzi -- Nasser-Podgorny talks -- Johnson-Kosygin meeting -- Private Egyptian talks -- Gromyko's second series of talks with Fawzi -- Arab summits and more clandestine meetings -- The Cairo "Little Summit" -- A potential diplomatic breakthrough? -- Nasser-Malik talks -- Boumedienne and Aref travel to Moscow -- The revised American-Soviet draft resolution -- Reactions to Nasser's alleged diplomatic breakthrough -- Nasser's Palestine policy, Khartoum and Tito's proposal -- The Arab League Khartoum Summit -- Khartoum results : a victory for conservatives or radicals? -- Tito's peace proposal -- Nasser's British strategy -- Nasser's meeting with Sir Dingle Foot -- The Nasser-Beeley meeting -- Nasser's British policy : sincere or a ploy? -- UN deliberations and private party negotiations -- Ashraf Ghorbal's meeting with Richard Parker -- Nasser's meeting with Siddiqui -- Mahmoud Riad's meeting with Robert Anderson -- Vasili Kuznetsov's meeting with Riad -- Vladimir Vinogradov's talks with Nasser -- Nasser's meeting with Robert Anderson -- Egyptian and Lebanese accounts of the meeting -- Anderson's account of the first meeting with Nasser -- Anderson's account of the second meeting with Nasser -- Nasser and UN Resolution 242 -- Mahmoud Riad's November 9 address to the Security Council -- Muhammad Heikal's commentary -- The British and Soviet draft resolutions -- UN Resolution 242 -- Nasser's speech to the National Assembly -- The proposed Rabat Summit and the Jarring Mission -- Towards a war of attrition