By the way, your claim that you didn't claim Max Hastings was a historian is yet another blatant lie.
Both you and The Braindead Brigadier argued vehemently that he was way back beyond this thread - certainly before the Guardian described him as one
You seem totally unable to distinguish truth from fiction.
Simple question that yu will not answer.
Why are our historians not historians while yours are - do you have to be a Freemason or something to make such claims?
Jim Carroll