On the thread Keith started in order to make everybody else look stupid, oh and failed spectacularly, someone asked why Keith doesn't include AJP Taylor in his little list of prophets err historians.

That thread has come to a satisfactory conclusion so not much point in revisiting it.

The reason is that I keep pointing out that AJP Taylor, in his fairly definitive account of WW2 points out repeatedly that senior officers had learned the lessons the hard way when as junior officers in WW1 they witnessed and to their shame were involved with the awful decisions and methods. They had no intention of repeating them.

Perhaps that's why Keith glossed over the one historian named on these threads who puts the e in eminent.