Appendix: Transcription Notes
This Etext Was Transcribed From a Volume of the 21st Printing
The following modifications were applied while transcribing the printed book to e-text:
While the other books in this series are consistently printed with a hyphen in “lieutenant-colonel”, some chapters in this book were printed with and some without. I added the hyphen where missing in chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 14.
chapter 2
- Page 45, para 6, removed extraneous quotation mark
chapter 6 - Page 132, para 3, moved a comma - my general policy is not to add/remove/move commas, even though I often find commas which seem to me out of place, but this one was just too bad to ignore
chapter 8
- Page 159, para 2, fixed typo (“enmy”)
- Page 167, para 5, missing quotation mark
chapter 11
- Page 225, para 4, fixed typo (“Generel”)
chapter 12
- Page 249, para 4, fixed typo (“exerienced”)
- Page 261, para 4, fixed typo (“woud”)
- Page 262, para 1, removed excess quotation mark
chapter 13
- Page 277, para 3, missing quotation mark
- Page 292, para 3, apostrophe printed instead of quotation mark
chapter 15
- Page 329, para 5, fixed typo (“painly”)
- Page 331, para 1, fixed typo (“caried”)
- Page 331, para 11, changed apostrophe to quotation mark
Limitations imposed by converting to plain ASCII: 8-bit characters were converted to their 7-bit equivalents: - chapter 9, page 186, “melee” - chapter 11, page 241, “Themopylae” (“ae” ligature)
I did not modify:
- As with all the books in this series, commas often seem to me to be missing or misplaced. Often one comma is printed where either no comma or two commas would seem more appropriate, for example:
A pleasant month for Harry, and all the young staff officers passed at Winchester.