I'd look up the word irony if I were you Terribleus.

There aren't many (any?) ways of drilling reason into Keith's thick skull and my hypothetical one professor reflects Keith's continual habit of saying subjective opinion is undeniable truth.

It's his infantile immature stupidity I was getting at, not any opinion on Max Hastings. For the record Hastings is a revisionist who writes history to suit his views in the same way he did as a newspaper editor. It reads well and I can see how shallow fools are impressed with it but his prolific output doesn't reflect thougt out reasoning in my humble opinion. He begins with a hypothesis and sets out to justify it. Not objective history accounting in my book.