In a book that has become a global bestseller and is published in Russian for the first time, Canadian historian Jacques R. Pauwels analyzes the true role and goals of the United States in World War II and openly answers uncomfortable questions: was Washington guided by humanitarian motives in opposing Nazi Germany? How is this generally believed overseas, and why did many influential Americans collaborate with fascist regimes, and at the end of the war treated the 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 towards the “best war in the entire history” of the country and 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.