It isn't the same as a newspaper editor asking a hack for a serialised take on war that fits their readership profile.

I have produced pages of documented history, mostly from the BBC History site, but from numerous other historians also.

In amongst all that was an essay by military historian Sir Max Hastings, based on his latest book, which happened to get published in the Mail.
Also a review of the book by another eminent military historian in the Telegraph.

Why the need to lie Musket?