Indeed. I hear he made Godwin change the ending to the bad one, because, I don't know, he wanted to posture about hard men making hard decisions or something. I much prefer Julius Caesar's attitude in Gallic Wars, or Captain Bligh's after the mutiny: Both of them had a reputation for ruthlessness, and yet none of their people were expendable, they tried to get them ALL home/win the war with a minimum of casualties.