Again, I must stress how important it is for anyone who is doing Family History research to first have an understanding of the history of the country that they are researching, for having a knowledge of a country's history makes Family History research easier and far more interesting.

Sometimes so much romance and folklore surrounds a country's history that a researcher can easily be sidetracked down a wrong path, resulting in the loss of much valuable time and unneccessary disappointments.

I often wish that I could write a book on history the same way that a Cinematograph film is made, with the main actors acting out the facts against a background of National music, National festivals, costumes and folklore.

Of course I cannot do that, but I can ask you, that as you read German History in this book, to create in your own mind a backdrop of German music, of beautiful German mountains or forest scenery, German folklore, flaxen haired German youths, and, of course, beautiful German women, and every facet of German town and village life that you have read in German travel books - and so our German History begins......

James McClelland, OAM

Book 22 - 95 Pages

This book is dedicated to the men and women of the Italian Resistance Movement, 55,000 of whom gave their lives fighting for a free Italy during the 1939 to 1945 war.

It is also dedicated to:

All Italians who over the centuries fought and died in the long struggle for a free and independent Italy.

Those Italians who died facing the firing squads of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Those Italians who died on Austrian scaffolds.

Those Italians who died defying the policies of Benito Mussolini.
James McClelland, OAM

Book 28- 62 Pages