Fonthill Media: 289 books
by Tim McLelland
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Britain’s Cold War Fighters explores the creation and development of the jet fighter, tracing the emergence of the first jet designs (the Meteor and Vampire) through to the first-generation jets which entered service with the RAF and Fleet Air Arm. Each aircraft type will be examined, looking at...
Anna Amalia, Grand Duchess
Patron of Goethe and Schiller
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
In 1756, Anna Amalia, the nineteen-year-old princess of the House of Brunswick was married to Constantine, the young duke of the minor duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. She bore Constantine two sons, but only three years after their marriage he died, leaving the young and inexperienced girl as regent....
Napoleon and Betsy
Recollections of Napoleon at St Helena
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
The story of Napoleon and Betsy Balcombe is an unusual and fascinating tale. A fallen Emperor who once controlled most of Europe makes friends with an impudent, pretty and spirited young English girl, just about the celebrate her thirteenth birthday. Betsy produced a book full of interest, but notwithstanding...
by Curt Riess
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Its existence is known only by the effects of its action.
Author Curt Riess on what happens when an organisation goes underground.
Written in 1944, thus contemporary to the events of the Second World War and Nazi Germany, The Nazis Go Underground describes how the Nazis planned and organised...
Tornado F3
A Navigator's Eye on Britain's Last Interceptor
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
The Tornado F2 had a troubled introduction to service. Unloved by its crews and procured as a political imperative, it was blighted by failures and was developed to counter a threat that disappeared. Modified rapidly before it could be sent to war, the Tornado F3 eventually matured into a capable...
Conan Doyle and the Crimes Club
The Creator of Sherlock Holmes and his Criminological Friends
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
On 17 July 1904, an intimate group of like-minded gentlemen sat down to dinner in London's Great Central Hotel. They were united by one shared interest: a fascination with crime and the workings of the criminal mind. This meeting, occurring in the golden age of literary dinners and good fellowship,...
The British Horror Film
From the Silent to the Multiplex
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
2017 is the 60th anniversary of the release of Hammer’s first Gothic horror film and the birth of the British horror genre: The Curse of Frankenstein
A complete guide to a perennially and hugely popular British movie genre
An ideal read for anyone from the interested newcomer to the experienced film...
by Curt Riess, Alan Sutton, Fonthill Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
** This electronic edition includes 96 black-and-white photographs **
Total Espionage was first published shortly before Pearl Harbor and is fresh in its style, retaining immediacy unpolluted by the knowledge of subsequent events. It tells how the whole apparatus of the Nazi state was geared...
Dear Raymond
The Story of Spirituality and the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
When Raymond Lodge perished when fighting in France in 1915, his father, Sir Oliver Lodge, set out on a controversial quest to discover the truth about life after death. A renowned physicist and member of the Fabian society, he took a scientific approach to his journey into spirituality and published...
by A.G. Macdonell, Alan Sutton, Fonthill Media
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
The Autobiography of a Cad is the hilarious 'memoir' of an arch-rotter, chronicling the life of one (happily fictitious) Edward Fox-Ingleby. A. G. Macdonell had great fun in writing this book, undoubtedly his funniest. It is written as a tongue-in-cheek 'autobiography' of a man who ploughs his way...
by Brian Cull
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
A gripping account of the conflict as it was viewed in 1940-41 by the aircrews of both sides, the press – often for propaganda purposes – and public
Original research with extracts from official operations and published memoirs
Includes information extracted from Luftwaffe records regarding claims...
Onslaught on Hitler's Rhine
Operations Plunder and Varsity, March 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
Operation Plunder was Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery’s swan song. It is rarely mentioned in the Second World War history books, and when it is, both American and British military historians dismiss it as being ultra-cautious.
Monty was by nature a cautious commander with dwindling manpower...
Beheaded by Hitler: Cruelty of the Nazis, Judicial Terror and Civilian Executions 1933-1945
Cruelty of the Nazis, Judicial Terror and Civilian Executions 1933-1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
From 1933 during the Nazi era when Hitler refashioned the German judicial system in line with his oppressive regime, many crimes became capital offences which led to a drastic increase in the number of executions. In 1936, the Reich Minister of Justice, Franz Gurtner, acting upon Hitler’s direction,...
High Hulls
Flying Boats of the 1930s and 1940s
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2018
For a time, the flying boat was seen as the way of the future. These aircraft, so strange and foreign to the modern mind, once criss-crossed the world and fulfilled essential military roles. In his latest book for Fonthill, Charles Bain looks at the golden age of the flying boat, when these sometimes...