"Despite all that has been written about the American Revolution, it seems that very little of what 'actually' happened or even the correct order that events occurred is known today by the vast majority of Americans."
Or Britons.
I'm also wondering about whose account of the Vietnam War is more trustworthy: the winner's or the loser's?
The proverb is popular because it allows one to sound super-cynical *and* incredibly knowledgable in a single breath. It reduces history to propaganda, which is unfortunately easy to do if you've never studied history.