Max Hastings is well known - as a tabloid journalist,

He has been admitted to a prestigious society of historians and won prestigious prizes for his work.

He is quoted and interviewed on history by the press. The Guardian described him as an historian just days ago.

The BBC has given him his own programmes on the war and put him at the head of an international list of "leading historians" of that war.

Compared to all that, why should anyone give a shit what Jim thinks of him?


but other than him, these historians are totally unknown to the general public, and even within historical circles, as far as their own peer profile goes,

Not true. They are the best selling historians of WW1 and appear all over the print and broadcast media.

their notoriety is based on the fact that they have challenged the accepted view of the war.

The are not notorious.
Their's is the accepted view of the war.