The Story of the World, Volume 4: The Modern Age
The Story of the World, Volume 4: The Modern Age
Page 12, twice, change “Lee-Enfield rifle” to “Enfield rifle”
Page 12: sentence beginning with “All the soldier had to do was…” change sentence to “All the soldier had to do was bite off the end of the cartridge, pour the powder into the rifle, and slide the bullet in.”
Page 109, delete an extra space, just inside the parentheses: “a canal ( a man-made river…)” should be “a canal (a man-made river…)”
Page 127: when Robert Baden-Powell is writing instructions on what to do with the dead horse, insert a period in Instruction #1, after “mattresses and pillows.”
Page 136, near the bottom: change “America Civil War” to “American Civil War”
Page 148, the phrase in brackets, “the czar possess” should be “the czar possesses”
Page 165, first sentence, “Hearst and Randolph” should be “Hearst and Pulitzer,” just as in the preceding and following paragraphs.
Page 172, third paragraph, 4th sentence, change “famous general” to “famous soldier”
Page 187, change “It was January 26th, 1904, just coming up on midnight.” to “It was February 9, 1904, just after midnight.” In the last paragraph on that page, change “Just after midnight” to “At half-past midnight”
Page 195, “future prime minster” should be “future prime minister.”
Page 234: For the founding of Sinn Fein change 1908 to 1905.
Page 235, The name of the Irish rebel leader “Patrick Henry Pearce” should be spelled “Patrick Henry Pearse.”
Page 236, the text says that Sinn Fein set up an independent Irish government “Two years after the Easter Uprising.” This is correct but it was closer to three years than to two (33 months), so we changed it to say “Almost three years after…”
Page 236, missing period: sentence should read “William Butler Yeats was invited to become a member of the brand-new Irish parliament.”
Page 285, FDR did not get polio as a child. He got it at age 39.
Page 286 last paragraph, change “hundreds of thousands of young men” to “almost two million young men”
Page 308, speaking of Japan’s conquest of Southeast Asia in December 1941 and early 1942, the text says, “Japan was extending its empire all over Asia. A year later, the Japanese would claim…” Change “A year later” to Within a year”
Page 317, speaking of Hitler’s invasion of France in 1940, change “France had already lost hundreds of thousands of men in the two years of fighting that had already taken place.” to “France had already lost thousands and thousands of men in the fighting that had already taken place.”
Map on page 334, change title to should say “Palestine Partitioned,” not “Israel partitioned.” During the time we’re discussing (as correctly stated in the chapter), this area was administered by the British, and the territory was called “Palestine.” Israel did not exist yet, so it’s clearer to say “Palestine Partitioned”
Page 349 the text says “East German soldiers put up a fence right through the middle of the city of Berlin, along the border between the two Germanies.” Change to “East German soldiers put up a fence right through the middle of the city of Berlin, and also along the border between the two Germanies.”
Page 359, missing word. The sentence should read, “At last Chiang and his remaining men left China and crossed over to the island of Taiwan.”
Page 374, near bottom of page, sentence should read, “In 1945, when the junta had been in charge of Argentina for…”
Page 382, Zaire has since been re-named “Democratic Republic of Congo.”
Page 394, In the paragraph beginning “In October of 1962…” a sentence states that the USSR had sent to Cuba some “nuclear missiles,” but then the next sentence says “And there were also jet bombers, apparently being prepared to carry the missiles into the air.” Both of these things did happen, but the connection between the bombers and the missiles is potentially confusing, so we eliminated the sentence about the bombers. In fact the aircraft and the missiles were separate threats. The missiles were of the SS-4 and SS-5 varieties, and were ground-launched without help from aircraft. The IL28-N bombers which were sent to Cuba were capable of carrying nuclear bombs, but could not carry the SS-4 or -5, and anyway had not been issued any bombs when the crisis ended.
Page 404, Last paragraph, change “a minister from Birmingham, Alabama” to “a minister who lived in Montgomery”
Page 415, referring to the Six-Day War of 1967, says “Once again, the Arab states of Syria, Egypt, and Jordan attacked Israel.” This is complicated, especially when simplified to a 4th grade level. Technically Israel struck first in this war, though the strike was pre-emptive because Israel believed (correctly, as it turned out) that those three nations (aided by arms and troops from other nations) were preparing to attack it, and the Israelis knew that they would lose such a battle, so they launched a preemptive attack. To reflect this, we have changed the text to say: “Once again, Israel and the Arab states of Syria, Egypt and Jordan went to war. Only now Israel had the help of its brand-new and very skilled air force. This time, Israel didn’t just defend itself. At the end of the war, Israel took land away from all three of the defeated countries.” For further references & details on this event, or to receive a list of sources, contact our proofreader.
Page 429 change “from four other Arab nations” to “from three other Arab nations.”
Page 430, last paragraph should begin with “In 1979,”
Page 474, missing period. The sentence should read “…any candidate, white or black, could be elected by all of the voters.”
Page 482 timeline/chronology: “1908 Irish Catholics form Sinn Fein [22]” should be changed to “1905 Irish Catholics form Sinn Fein [22].” This will make it consistent with correction #6, page 234
Page 483, change the year for “Sinn Fein sets up Irish Assembly” from 1918 to 1919
Page 486 (chronology/timeline)….one of the entries for “1975” says “Mozambique is free from Italian control [42]” But as the text on page 469 correctly states, Mozambique was held by Portugal until 1975. So this timeline should say “1975 Mozambique is free from Portuguese control [42].”
Page 493 in Index, insert entry for “Enfield rifle, 12” to stay consistent w/ correction #1.
Page 496 in Index, delete entry for “Lee-Enfield rifle” to stay consistent w/ correction #1.
Page 498 in Index, Patrick Henry Pearce should be Patrick Henry Pearse.
MAPS
In early printings of the book, Belgium was incorrectly drawn on the maps on pages 218, 228, 244, 262, 288, 292, 298, and 310. It was correct on page 344. The 8 wrong maps incorrectly eliminate Belgium’s coastline. We apologize to residents of coastal Belgium, which we hear is lovely. The maps have been fixed in subsequent printings.
On the map on page 316, the Ardennes Forest is incorrectly placed. It should be further “down and right” (southeast), near the “bottom right” corner of Belgium.
On page 48, the Civil War map leaves out the names of several northern (Union) states: Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin. In addition, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, California and Oregon are also absent, because the map was focusing on one region of the nation. This is not an error, but it gave some readers the impression that the Union states were fewer in number than they actually were, so we have replaced the map with a larger one.
ILLUSTRATION CHANGE
Page 285, “ABC” has been removed from one of the microphones on FDR’s desk. The ABC network didn’t yet exist in the decade that this chapter covers.
