Romania's first school history book to examine its communist past is facing a ban from parliamentarians concerned it does not do justice to the country's history.
The innocently titled History Manual for Class Twelve has so angered the country's nationalist politicians that a parliamentary commission is now deciding whether to strike the book from the approved schools list.
They are headed by a nationalist senator, Mr Sergiu Nicolaescu, a prominent film-maker in communist times, who has said publicly he wants the book burned for its lack of patriotism.
"What does the book say about Michael The Brave? Only that he is a famous character from Romania's history. But for Romanians he is a symbol of unification!" he said.
The book was published last summer and was an immediate hit, its attractive layout full of maps and photographs. The Ministry of Education gave it the green light and 10,000 copies were ordered by schools. Then the nationalists took notice.
Ten years ago violent revolution saw more than 1,000 die in Romania as the east's most brutal communist dictatorship was over thrown.
But Mr Nicolaescu may have a point. In its zest for puncturing national myths, the text gives only a perfunctory mention of Romania's warrior kings. Stephen the Great, who won a string of battles against the Turks, is given just two lines. And Dracula - real name Vlad Tepes - gets just one paragraph, mostly devoted to his link with the fictional Bram Stoker vampire, although in fact there is no connection.
Nationalists think they know the answer. "Please don't quote me, but there is only one explanation," said one nationalist politician. "This is the kind of thing that would be written by Hungarians or Jews. Did you know the publisher is a Jew?"
He is indeed. And he even has a Hungarian wife. But, Dr Sorin Mitu points out with a grin, the authors commissioned to write the book are 100 per cent "pure" Romanians. "You think because I'm a Jew I don't have Romanian sentiment?" he said. "This book teaches children to be patriots, but in another way. Only by being intelligently informed can they be true patriots."