The history you chose to ignore was that works written post Alan Clark's "Donkeys" were written with much better information from wider sources and by historians who were acknowledged specialists in the period (Something that Clark most certainly wasn't). Therefore to cling to discredited conclusions arrived at by Clark and advance them in any discussion on the subject while studiously ignoring the far better done by others lacks both logical and reason.

Go dance on the head of your pin DtG it is about all that you are good for.