u/roger--wilco

What are the bonefides that Tom is missing that cause sources to refer to Dominic as an historian but Tom as an author? For example this entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goalhanger "In November 2020, the company launched The Rest Is History, hosted by historian Dominic Sandbrook and author Tom Holland." Even on their own wikipedia entries, Dominic is referred to as an historian while Tom's entry adds the modifier "popular historian." Is it Dom's thesis on Eugene McCarthy that throws him into the realm of full historian legitimacy?

I found it interesting that the boys (presumably unintentionally) ended up pulling a lot of the same quotes from the same sources as Dan did in Blueprint for Armageddon. Specifically, the Ernst Junger excerpts about "the god of pain" and the comparison of shell fire to "being menaced by a man with a large hammer" while being tied up to a post. Having listened to the Carlin podcasts at least five times each, those quotes were burned into my memory, even the way Dan delivered them in his hardcore quote voice.

I found it fascinating that they all zeroed in on those specific quotes, of all the possible quotes in Storm of Steel (and I feel like there was at least one other source where I recognized a quote but I can't remember exactly). I remember Carlin calling Junger "the veteran's veteran" and also remarking, as Dom did, on how much Junger actually loved his experience.