Fonthill Media is an independent publishing company with offices in Oxford UK, and Charleston SC USA. Their catalog includes over 250 titles covering a variety of subjects including Archaeology and Ancient History, Aviation, Biography, Local History and Heritage, Military and General History, Sport, Transport and Industrial History. Their titles are published simultaneously in print and electronic formats and supplied to the general book trade as well as specialist outlets. Most titles are aimed at general readership level, but with a more specialist, or in-depth focus on the subject matter in hand.
A detailed treatise on 32 Worthington families of the 17th century in Lancashire - and others worldwide whose ancestry can be traced to Lancashire - produced from some of over 2,800 written references collected over more than ten years and containing pedigrees of each family and 76 maps and illustrations. A must for Worthington genealogists.
The Deportation of the Slovak Jews by the Hlinka Guard
by Walter Zapotoczny
ISBN: 9781781558805
Pub Date: 2023-04-06
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Fonthill Media
208 Pages
By October 1942 the Hlinka Guard had overseen the deportation of some 60,000 Slovak Jews. During the 1944-1945 German occupation, another 13,500 Jews were deported and 5,000 imprisoned. Many of the Jews ended up at the Auschwitz Birkenau Concentration and Extermination Camp. Not much is known about the Hlinka Guard. This book tells their story.
The lives and mutually supportive friendship of Queen Ena (Victoria Eugenia), consort of King Alfonso XIII of Spain, and her cousin Bee, Infanta Beatrice, wife of his cousin Infante Alfonso, set to a background of bitter court intrigues during the unsettled monarchical and then republican era of a country in which divisions led to civil war.
Scholars, historians, and general readers occasionally share a misconception about their knowledge of the Gestapo in Nazi Germany and where it fitted in the regime. This extends to other parts of the German intelligence agencies. This book uses Allied Intelligence reports to extend our understanding of how these Nazi agencies operated and worked.
Peter Owen, one of the last of the great émigré publishers, recalls his remarkable life and career from his lonely Jewish boyhood in Nazi Germany to maturity as acclaimed London publisher of many distinguished international writers, including Anaïs Nin, Salvador Dalí, Paul Bowles, Yukio Mishima, and Anna Kavan.
Over 14 albums, soundtracks & compilations, the undisputed Queen of Pop has released 80+ singles spanning five decades. In this book, every Madonna song from her 40-year career is examined with new insights, revelations, video & remix info.
The Stories Behind Every Song by Kylie Minogue, the Princess of Pop
by Marc Andrews
ISBN: 9781781558706
Pub Date: 2022-11-29
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Fonthill Media
240 Pages
From Aussie TV star to global popstar, from SexKylie to Glastonbury Goddess, from tabloid target to cancer survivor, Kylie Minogue is the true Princess of Pop. In this book each song from her 300+ catalogue is examined with insights, revelations & video/remix information. This is the inside story of Kylie’s lucky, lucky, lucky career over 35 years.
Reedie’s journey from player to enthusiastic volunteer led to influence in badminton and its worldwide development with new efforts to support athletes and ultimately successful bids to host the London 2012 Olympic Games with the elevation of sport in society and the administration of sport across the Olympic world, poisoned by doping in Russia.
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Fonthill Media is an independent publishing company with offices in Oxford UK, and Charleston SC USA. Their catalog includes over 250 titles covering a variety of subjects including Archaeology and Ancient History, Aviation, Biography, Local History and Heritage, Military and General History, Sport, Transport and Industrial History. Their titles are published simultaneously in print and electronic formats and supplied to the general book trade as well as specialist outlets. Most titles are aimed at general readership level, but with a more specialist, or in-depth focus on the subject matter in hand. 
