With crackerjack moviemaking and none of the mustiness or restraint of official history, it chronicles the Allied conquest of Nazi-occupied Europe.
The diary has been widely compared to the Pentagon Papers, a leaked official history showing how Lyndon Johnson's administration had lied about its strategy in Vietnam.
The irony is that while the communists cling to the frontiers of the Qing empire, their official history condemns the Qing as feudal, foreign, imperialist and usurping.
For many years it was denied - not least in the official history of The Times - that the two had met in the run-up to the bid being cleared.
Orchestra Chairman Clemens Hellberg had initially been accused of failing to include details of the Philharmonic's Nazi links in his 1992 book Democracy of Kings, which is widely regarded as the orchestra's official history.
Sir John, who is stepping down as commissioner on January 31, was speaking at the launch of The Official History of the Metropolitan Police, at a reception also attended by Home Secretary David Blunkett.
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The Berlin section, which has been directed by Terence Riley, chief curator of the department of architecture and design at MoMA, in collaboration with Barry Bergdoll, professor of art history at Columbia University, is rich in the pre-1920s houses later written out of Mies's official history of himself.
According to official Chinese history, things would have been much worse without Zhou.
Official Russian history asserts that Stalin believed that Germany, even if it were to emerge from war as a victor, would be so exhausted that it would be unable to wage war with the USSR for at least a decade.
The official version of history is repeated with such vehemence that it has gained many adherents, even in the West.
But if you are one of those who care whether the chancellor cut the deficit in 2012-13 - I thought I should let you know that the latest official version of history says he didn't.
For a woman of her generation, who was told by her Wellesley graduation speaker that her role in life was to raise the next generation of educated citizens, becoming the highest-ranking female official in American history should have been triumph enough.
Because of Russia's history of official atheism and anti-Semitism, there are few countries where Jewish-Christian relations present so many paradoxes.
And while the debate over junkets rages in the virtual world, the practice does, in fact, have a history of official regulation.
Yangzhou, where Marco Polo once served as a municipal official, has a history of 2, 500 years, dating back to the Spring and Autumn Period in China (771 to 403 BC) when it was called Guangling.
History shows that official attempts to pick technology winners, no matter how initially promising, usually end in tears.
But the heart of the book is its relentless litany of Chinese abuses and a direct rebuttal of China's official narrative about its troubled history with the Uighur people.
On Japan, China Daily says Beijing is dismayed at Tokyo's plan to amend previous official statements about its wartime history, including a landmark 1995 apology for Japan's aggression during World War II.
This week began black history month, an official period of racial and cultural appreciation that many Americans disclaim as either too laudatory or belittling.
Melissa Nobles, a political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who specialises in apologology (our word), says that they can give official backing to a particular view of history, help contain political grievances peacefully and encourage public-spiritedness among alienated parts of the population.
While the Marine Corps-Special Operations tiltrotor aircraft's official title is the Osprey, its extraordinary developmental history is more reminiscent of the story of the legendary Phoenix.
Tomorrow afternoon, the First Lady will host young women from the White House Leadership and Mentoring Program for a presentation on the history and the protocols surrounding state and official visits in honor of the first State Dinner here.
Forty-four years later, the 21st official film in the second most lucrative movie franchise in history (after "Star Wars") has made its London premiere.
And as a little bit of a history lesson, the custom of selecting an official holiday theme began in the 1960s when First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy created a nutcracker-themed Christmas for her daughter Caroline.
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New official estimates put the leak the worst oil spill in American history.
What this means is, even though this new series takes a lot of inspiration from the Ultimate Spider-Man comics, it is also looking back to those great past eras as well and lifting the best and most important elements, to remain faithful to the full 50 years of Spider-Man history (a 50-year anniversary that is official this August, by the way).
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Yet at the 16th party congress in 2002, only seven private-sector bosses made the cut, which was the first time in history they were allowed to become deputies, according to official statistics.
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"North Korea has had a long history of bellicose rhetoric and threats, " said a senior administration official.
"I don't think he's been as much of an innovator as people seem to say, because there is a history of redistributive politics in Venezuela, " the former State Department official said.
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