Oh, I know: I don't have the book -- why the hell would I? -- but I know that he says Desmoulins perished at the hands of Saint-Just -- oh yeah -- and doesn't even give the right age of death to Desmoulins!

He is an awful, vastly incompetent, unjustifiably arrogant and overpaid idiot. Factual mistakes? His whole career is a factual mistake.