In have not selected any historians.
You can find none because there are none.

The programmes addressed the fact that the officers and Kitcheners recruiters misled the soldiers on the duration of the war and the ease in which the Somme would be fought

No they did not.
You just made that up.

The upper echelons of the military should have been well aware of the impossibility of Mons and should have advised against it

You mean they should have asked the Germans not to attack them with overwhelming numbers?

Even Niall Ferguson, the one Historian who thinks a German victory would have been a good outcome, acknowledges that the Germans would have won in 1914 but for the BEF.

the officers on the ground telling porkies.

A lie and a slander against brave men Jim.