That said, it seems like a more neutral read of this situation wouldn’t spend quite as much ink figuring out in which circumstances Beauchamp’s material was remotely plausible. I have this feeling that other failures to verify would be treated a bit less kindly.

Yes, war is hell. Yes, it is plausible that in war things like this may happen. We just can’t take the next step and say that therefore it doesn’t matter if those stories, presented as factual accounts, actually happened.

It makes me a tad uneasy.