A second edition can incorporate evidence discovered after the first book went to press. For the author's work on Tribal, Battle and Daring-class destroyers, visits to HMCS Haida, Canadian archives and HMAS Vampire could deepen the Canadian and Australian sections. Pandemic restrictions prevented those visits, and he chose not to present other historians' primary research as though it were his own. The research lesson is to acknowledge earlier scholarship while gathering and interpreting primary material directly before expanding a definitive account.
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Why new archival work belongs in later book editions
Visits to Canadian and Australian ships and archives could add primary-source coverage to a later edition without merely repackaging other historians' research.