Well if you think Hastings is "racy" then i don't know what to call Beevor. Sure hastings makes effort to point it out. But Beevor seems to delight in it and then claim some sort of moral superiority.
You make my point for me, I think.
Neither of the gentlemen in question is a true UK, academic historian. You have to read Michael Howard.
It is easy to for several historians (sic) of British conflict in WWI/WWII, to don a mantle they have not gained through academia.
IMO, Hastings has currently run out of subjects. I cannot see how his latest book will shed any real further light on his narratives in
Overlord,
Armageddon or
Nemesis.