Fonthill Media: 289 books
A Beatles Miscellany
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Beatles But Were Afraid to Ask
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Detailed UK and US discographies, including release dates and chart positions
A thoroughly researched collection of facts and trivia guaranteed to delight and enthral any fan of the group, young and old
Considerable media focus on The Beatles expected in 2017, the 50th anniversary of the release...
Conquest of the Atlantic
Cunard Liners in the 1950s and 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
Cunard, the most famous name in shipping, turns 175 in 2015. The company began back in 1840, with paddlewheel steamers, but grew and progressed and created some of the largest, fastest and most luxurious liners afloat in their time. The final ‘golden age’ on the Atlantic run between Europe &...
Thetis
Submarine Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
The true story of the loss of submarine HMS Thetis is still shrouded in mystery, even now, some seventy-five years after her tragic sinking. On 1 June 1939, HMS Thetis sank in Liverpool Bay on her maiden dive with the loss of ninety-nine lives. It was the worst peacetime submarine tragedy ever to...
Howard's Whirlybirds
Howard Hughes' Amazing Pioneering Helicopter Exploits
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Howard Hughes, the movie mogul, aviation pioneer and political hound dog, has always fascinated the public with his mixture of secrecy, dashing lifestyle and reclusiveness. Companies responsible for major technological leaps often become household names. An exception is Howard Hughes's pioneering...
by Jeffrey Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2019
Howard Hughes was an industrialist, aviator, and eccentric, but he was also the most important movie producer during the golden age of Hollywood. At a time when filmmaking was tightly controlled and highly formulaic, Hughes used his enormous wealth to challenge the dictates and restrictions that defined...
by Richard V. Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Thomas J. Lipton s America s Cup Campaigns is the saga of one man s three decade obsession with winning the America s Cup. This is author Richard V. Simpson s fifth title concerning the quest for the America s Cup the Blue Ribbon prize for the sport of large ocean racing yachts. In this book, Simpson...
by Andrew Norman
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
** This electronic edition includes 42 black-and-white illustrations and 8 family tree diagrams **
Whereas many aspects of Jane Austen's life are well known and documented, others are shrouded in mystery. This was not as a result of any action on her part. It was principally because of the...
by Daniel Ward
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Her iconic blonde looks, stunning voice and songs of loneliness and melancholy have endeared her to millions, yet Agnetha Faltskog remains an enigmatic and distant figure. From her success as a teenage singer and songwriter in Sweden in the late 1960 s to her years of global superstardom with pop...
Richard III
From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and Records
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
No English king has suffered wider fluctuations of reputation than Richard III, perhaps the most controversial ruler England has ever had. Vilified by critics as a ruthless master of intrigue and a callous murderer, he has been no less extravagantly praised by defenders of his reputation against Tudor...
by Dorothy Margaret Stuart, Alan Sutton
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
It is, as Lord Melbourne hinted to Queen Victoria, 'a little curious that so many good-looking children should have been born of the union between George III and Queen Charlotte.' His florid youthful comeliness soon passed, leaving him with protuberant eyes and pendulous lips, and even the Queen's...
Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou and the Wars of the Roses
From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and Records
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Henry VI (1422-61), a man 'more given to God and devout prayer than handling worldly and temporal things', was the third, and least successful, Lancastrian king of England; his wife Margaret of Anjou, 'a great and strong laboured woman', became a formidable political force in her own right; and the...
by John Van der Kiste
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
** This electronic edition includes 43 black-and-white photographs **
Kaiser Friedrich III and his consort Victoria, Princess Royal of Great Britain, had six children who lived to maturity, the eldest being Kaiser Wilhelm II. The three younger sisters, Victoria, Sophie and Margaret, were particularly...
The End of the German Monarchy
The Decline and Fall of the Hohenzollerns
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
A new look at the German empire from the age of Bismarck onwards, its decline during the First World War, the Kaiser’s abdication, and royal connections with the Nazi regime
Comprehensive selection of images, including some rarely seen
Insightful portrait of the Kaiser’s family, including accounts...
Evelina
A Victorian Heroine in Venice
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Evelina van Millingen Pisani was a modern woman in the age of Queen Victoria. She was born in Constantinople in 1831 to an eccentric French mother and an English father who was a doctor accused of having murdered Lord Byron.
Educated in Papal Rome until the age of eighteen, she was whisked...