Classified Falklands histories and access to evidence

A classified official history can draw on information withheld from public accounts of the same conflict. A separate restricted British history of the Falklands War is presumed here rather than identified as a known document. Alex Clarke's criticism of Lawrence Freedman's public history concerns its initial access to participants and its treatment of Commodore Michael Clapp. In that account, further contact with people involved led to revisions. The example connects differences between histories to the evidence and witnesses available to their authors.