 The controversy was described by the political scientist John Mearsheimer in his work "The Weight of History", who concluded that, by "putting words in the mouths of German Generals and manipulating history", Liddell Hart was in a position to show that he had been at the root of the dramatic German successes in 1940.The trend continued with other uncritical biographies, such as "Rommel as Military Commander" (1968), by the former British soldier and author Ronald Lewin, and "Knight's Cross