Cohomological uniqueness, Massey products and the modular isomorphism problem for 2-groups of maximal nilpotency class

Let $G$ be a finite 2-group of maximal nilpotency class, and let $BG$ be its classifying space. We prove that iterated Massey products in $H^{\ast }(BG;{\text{F}}_2)$ do characterize the homotopy type of $BG$ among 2-complete spaces with the same cohomological structure. As a consequence we get an alternative proof of the modular isomorphism problem for 2-groups of maximal nilpotency class.