About the book: 2016 / In the book, which became a global bestseller and was published for the first time in Russian, Canadian historian Jacques R. Pauwels analyzes the true role and goals of the United States in the Second world war and openly answers uncomfortable questions: was Washington guided by humanistic motives when speaking out against Nazi Germany, as is commonly believed overseas, and why did many influential Americans collaborate with fascist regimes, and at the end of the war treated criminals so leniently? What explains the “bloody failure” of the Dieppe offensive in August 1942 and the infamous bombing of Dresden? Why is it that in the West and in the United States so little is known about the Battle of Moscow in December 1941 and the beginning of the Red Army counteroffensive, while the Allied landings in Normandy in 1944 are praised as a crushing blow to Nazi Germany? And what actually made the allies open a second front? The author draws very convincing analogies between the attitude of the Americans to the “best war in the entire history” of the country and to the fight against terrorism that unfolded after the tragic events of September 11, 2001, declared “the new Pearl Harbor ", between the replicated clichés about the idealistic goals of the Americans in World War II and their peacekeeping mission in the Middle East... History repeats itself.