Max Hastings (your star witness) is not an established and respected historian
Yes he is.
Read his biog.

The Daily Telegraph and Daily M*il being wonderful outlets for propaganda and distortion.

That is just bollocks.
The BBC site uses Todman and Sheffield to provide the history of that conflict.
That is where virtually all my extracts were taken from.
Read it Jim.
There is nothing there to prop up your discredited views.
My own views were formed by reading such historians.
You two muppets are putting yourself up against all the professional historians.
Why should anyone do more than laugh at you?