Non-person,
I can not always answer quickly am very happy for Teribus to answer for me.
I merely asked on what authority he considered some historians to be valid

I am not doing that.
Jim, Musket and now Dave are asserting that Sir Max Hastings is not an historian.

no insight into my knowledge of the subject, he do not know which books I have read or which books have passed me by.

None of the non-persons have posted anything revealing any historical knowledge.
If you have read any book of the last twenty years you will know it supports me.
If that is not a fact, name the book and author.

All the historians any of us can find support my views.
None have been found that do not.
Unless and until they are there is nothing to discuss.