Fonthill History

Forgotten stories and voices from the past. Our History selection examines the facts and myths about the people and events that shaped our world.

We recommend the real story of Napoleon and Betsy: Recollections of Napoleon on St Helena and probably the finest one-volume account of Napoleon and his battles: Napoleon and His Marshals.



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Anna Amalia, Grand-Duchess
Patron of Goethe and Schiller
Frances A. Gerard

The classic biography of the young widowed Grand Duchess who forged the tiny duchy of Saxe-Weimar into Germany’s cultural centre.

234 x 156 mm • paperback • 320 pages • 57 mono

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978-1-78155-016-8
Fonthill | Biography
£ 15.29
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Churchill and Stalin's Secret Agents
Operation Pickaxe at RAF Tempsford
Bernard O'Connor

The top-secret agreement between Britain and the Soviet Union whereby the British Special Operations Executive, the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force arranged the transport of 34 Soviet agents from Archangel and Murmansk to be infiltrated into France, Holland, Italy, Austria and Germany.

248 x 172 mm • hardback • 320 pages • 20 mono

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978-1-78155-002-1
Fonthill | Military
£ 22.50
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Crystal Palace Speedway
A History of the Glaziers
Norman Jacobs

An important illustrated history for the popular motor sport of Speedway.

235 x 162 mm • paperback • 128 pages • 50 b&w illustrations

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978-1-78155-062-5
£ 13.49
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Dearest Bess: The Live and Times of Lady Elizabeth Foster
Dorothy Margaret Stuart

Bess was the other Duchess, Georgiana’s best friend, who with Georgiana and her husband, William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, formed the infamous ménage à trois at Devonshire house.

234 x 156 mm • paperback • 288 pages • 16 mono

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978-1-78155-005-2
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First of the Few: 5 June - 9 July 1940
Brian Cull

This unique book covers operations a month before the ‘official’ start of the Battle of Britain: 5 June - 9 July 1940.


234 x 156 mm • hardback • 256 pages • 30 b/w

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978-1-78155-116-5
£ 17.29
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Hitler's Naval Bases
Kriegsmarine Bases During the Second World War
Jak P. Mallmann Showell

Beautifully illustrated with over 200 previously unpublished photographs, Hitler’s Naval Bases is, without question, the definitive book on this principal branch of the Kriegsmarine.



248 x 172 mm • hardback • 256 pages • 200 illustrations

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978-1-78155-198-1
£ 18.00
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Merchantmen in Action
Evacuations and Landings by Merchant Ships in the Second World War
Roy V. Martin

The little known story of the essential support role provided by merchant ships in the Second World War.

234 x 156 mm • hardback • 208 pages • 32 b&w illustrations

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978-1-78155-045-8
£ 18.00
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Mustang - Thoroughbred Stallion of the Air
Steve Pace

This P/F-51 book will be rife with first-person accounts of the beloved Mustang in combat in two wars.

275 x 210 mm • hardback • 224 pages • 200 illustrations (50 colour)

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978-1-78155-051-9
Fonthill | Aviation
£ 22.50
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Napoleon & Betsy
Recollections of Napoleon on St Helena
Lucia Elizabeth Abell

The fascinating tale of a fallen Emperor, who became the best friend of a 13-year-old English girl.

234 x 156 mm • hardback • 160 pages • 40 b&w and colour

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978-1-78155-034-2
£ 17.09
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Napoleon and His Marshals
A. G. Macdonell

Probably the finest one-volume account of Napoleon and his battles in the English language.

234 x 156 mm • paperback • 288 pages • 30 black and white illustrations

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978-1-78155-036-6
£ 15.29
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