Hello, I am in Queensland in the baking hot heat today it is 38 C, and read a query re BOOKS re Germany History. I found a book at the public library called "the Long Nineteenth Century - a History of Germany 1780-1918" by David Blackbourn, Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN 0195076729. I am reading this, only a hundred or so pages in, as I am interested in what happened to my relatives that made them want to leave and renounce their citizenship. But so far it is full of information, maps, reading info as well as tables and figures, as well as plates. I will probably only read up to my latest years of interest, 1858, but so far it is a worthwhile read. I also found another book, about emigration from (Germany to ) England to Australia called "The Long Farewell - Settlers under Sail" by Don Charlwood, publisher Allen Lane 1981, ISBN 0713914289. This book is more suited to my research, it is an excellent read as it covers all the things our "settlers under sail" had to endure before boarding the ships, from the advertising put out in the towns and villages to the final product - landing on terra firma in Australia - many vowing never to sail that distance again, once again there are drawings, pen and ink and pencil, photos, lots of diary extracts, and explanatory drawings of the ships equipment which I find very interesting and ever so more thoughtful of their guts and determination to get on one of those ships in the first place, let alone be on it for months at a time with bad food, weather and accommodations. So long for now, Dale Gough