Taylor, the only historian you cited, was not a military historian and anyway he supports my view on the cause of the war and why we fought.

This is Todman on the BBC history site.

"Both Clark (for financial reasons) and Littlewood and Taylor (for political reasons), emphasised - often inaccurately - the incompetence of British generals and the futility of war."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/perceptions_01.shtml