INTRODUCTION PART I: THE ANCIENT WORLD The Fake Bardiya Themistocles and the Message to Xerxes Julius Caesar and the Invention of Spin Cicero's Philippics Arminius and the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest The Secret History PART II: THE MIDDLE AGES The Crimes of Empress Wu Magic and Monmouth The Fall of the Komnenoi The Betrayal of the Knights Templar Jeanne and the Black Fleet The Travels of Sir John Mandeville PART III: THE EARLY MODERN AGE Simon of Trent and the Cult of Blood The Spanish Inquisition: Corruption and Confusion Malleus Maleficarum and the Invention of Witchcraft The Saga of Pope Joan Perkin Warbeck: The Great Pretender The Donation of Constantine The Aztec Conquest Henry VIII and Turning a Lie into Law The Many (Many) Lies of Nostradamus The Imjin War and the Worst Peace Negotiations in History The Three Dmitrys The Affair of the Poisons Mary Toft: The Woman who Birthed Rabbits The Lie of Mir Jafar Joseph Knight's Fight for Freedom The Lost Diamonds of Marie Antoinette PART IV: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY The Testament of Peter the Great The Imaginary World of Gregor MacGregor The Great Moon Hoax Abraham Lincoln and the Invention of Miscegenation The Greatest Conman Bismarck and the Art of War The USS Maine and the War of Words The Dreyfus Affair PART V: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY The Concentration Camp Lie The Protocols of Zion The Propaganda War The Spanish Flu Censors Anna or Anastasia? Walter Duranty and the Great Famine The Tuskegee Experiment The Theatre of Theresienstadt Making a Traitor: Iva Toguri D'Aquino The Census Denial Operation Legacy The Mirabal Sisters Cover-Up The Legacy of Lies at My Lai The Chernobyl Disaster AFTERWORD ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX.