I found this one annoying, because I kept saying "but, but, I definitely know that's wrong!!" I think this book would have gone over better if I hadn't majored in International Studies in the late 1990s; revisionist nonsense is easier to sell when all the archives are sealed shut.

What's probably most annoying is that it's not even the foremost book in its genre (and by that I mean revisionist histories of the Cold War.) For that, look to William Appleman Williams.

Suffice to say that it was seeing this on my shelf and remembering I hadn't yet come onto LibraryThing to express my annoyance is why I logged in this evening. ( )