Fonthill Media: 289 books

Cover of Britain’s Cold War Fighters
by Tim McLelland
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...
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Anna Amalia, Grand Duchess

Patron of Goethe and Schiller

by Frances A. Gerard, Alan Sutton, Fonthill Media
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....
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Napoleon and Betsy

Recollections of Napoleon at St Helena

by Lucia Elizabeth Abell, Alan Sutton, Fonthill Media
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...
Cover of The Nazis Go Underground
by Curt Riess
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...
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Tornado F3

A Navigator's Eye on Britain's Last Interceptor

by David Gledhill
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...
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Conan Doyle and the Crimes Club

The Creator of Sherlock Holmes and his Criminological Friends

by Stephen Wade
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,...
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The British Horror Film

From the Silent to the Multiplex

by Ian Fryer
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...
Cover of Total Espionage: Germany's Information and Disinformation Apparatus 1932-40
by Curt Riess, Alan Sutton, Fonthill Media
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...
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Dear Raymond

The Story of Spirituality and the First World War

by Sophie Jackson
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...
Cover of The Autobiography of a Cad
by A.G. Macdonell, Alan Sutton, Fonthill Media
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...
Cover of Blenheims Over Greece and Crete 1940-1941
by Brian Cull
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...
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Onslaught on Hitler's Rhine

Operations Plunder and Varsity, March 1945

by Patrick Delaforce
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...
Cover of Beheaded by Hitler: Cruelty of the Nazis, Judicial Terror and Civilian Executions 1933-1945

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

by Colin Pateman
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,...
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High Hulls

Flying Boats of the 1930s and 1940s

by Charles R. G. Bain
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...
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