An earth shattering book. Baker takes everything you know about the run up to World War II and stands it all on its head. I haven't had a book haunt me like this in a long time. Everything I know is wrong.

Roosevelt knew about the Japanese navy moving toward Pearl Harbor.

Winston Churchill did all he could to antagonize Germany into a war of attrition through the air.

Britain bombed German cities before the London Blitz started.

Jews suffered more due to the English blockade of Germany than anyone else.

Roosevelt purposefully antagonized the Japanese, hoping for a blow so the U.S. would willingly go to war.

In 1940 and 1941 peace was possible and tens of millions of Europeans, Jews and gentiles alike, could have been saved.

An unwillingness to kill does not constitute your support for your nation's chosen enemies.

Britain put Germans, mostly Jewish refugees, into internment camps.

Hitler was a monster but Roosevelt and Churchill chose war over diplomacy and Churchill was having a grand ole time playing at war.

It sounds cliched to say that a book will change how you look at things. Shouldn't any great book? Could it be that the true heroes of World War II are those that worked to prevent it?