It is to be expected that many people will not like this book – the truths of history are seldom popular in their own time – but the reader has only to pursue his own researches, untroubled by accepted (and mostly unfactual) ideas or, what is perhaps more important, think carefully for himself, to realize the truths contained herein. These truths rely on the facts of history alone, not on personal conviction or belief. Hopefully future historians will have more freedom to publish their works than is available now, when unfashionable truths are at best ignored and at worst suppressed.