Wow Musket!! You've outdone yourself on Sir Max - The Royal Historical Society are according to you: "shallow fools......impressed with.....his prolific output".

You could, judged upon your own contributions to this forum, be rightly accused of many things Musket, but knowing anything about history isn't one of them. Oh, and on Sir Max Hastings, like Carroll, you too should look up the difference between a Journalist/Reporter and an Editor/Columnist.

While I disagree strongly with many of Hastings comments and much of his work - On the First World War he was bang on - and both yourself and Carroll were ripped to shit on the Christmas Truce Thread on the three key metrics for success introduced by Keith.

By the by Musket you are far from objective yourself and as I stated previously you seem to suffer from a chronic lack of perspective on just about every subject you select for "discussion".

Keith on the other hand does clearly identify the sources he quotes and introduces and in so doing clearly states that they are THEIR opinions NOT necessarily his. Unfortunately all you and Carroll ever do is read who posted and then launch into attacking the poster NOT the points introduced by him - the pair of you even have to resort to inventing things said by him to attack him on - It really is rather pathetic and frankly boring, apart from that it is completely pointless and spoils any thread where the pair of you indulge yourselves.