Books published by Fonthill Media LLc

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 and transform the conventions that defined the motion picture industry.

In 1913, Frank Barnwell designed the Bristol Scout, which was the fastest and most manoeuvrable warplane for the first eighteen months of the First World War, and became the prototype single-seat fighter from which all later fighters were derived. As a result Barnwell became one of the seminal figures in the development of aircraft design.

Ravenna has 8 World Heritage sites from the 5th-6th centuries AD-churches and monuments with magnificent mosaics, painstakingly constructed during the era of the fall of the western Roman empire. How did it become an imperial and regal capital? Why was it spared invasion and civil war? Should we thank the Ostrogoths? Let this book be your guide.

The Texans from Hood's Texas Brigade and other regiments who fought at the Battle of Antietam described their experiences of the battle in personal diaries, interviews, newspaper articles, letters, and speeches. Their words provide a fascinating and harrowing account of the battle, and, for the first time, their stories are compiled into one book.

This volume reveals Hermann Goering's full role in forcing the Allies of World War I to back down repeatedly as he and Hitler bloodlessly occupied Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Memel during 1938-39. In addition, the Luftwaffe's vaunted Legion Kondor helped win the Spanish Civil War, with air experience gained.

Feldpost: The War Letters of Friedrich Reiner Niemann documents the frontline experiences of a German soldier from the 6th Infantry Division from 1941- 1945. Niemann describes the fighting at Rzhev, Russia, 1942-1943, and his survival of the destruction of his division in 1944. His is a rare view of the conflict on the Eastern front.

Reminiscences, including personal diaries, interviews, newspaper articles, letters, and speeches of the Texans from Hood's Texas Brigade.

Volume Two of this remarkable photographic history, tracing Goering's history using his own photographic archive

US Naval Aviation has a rich history of special and commemorative markings and nose art that has not been documented until this book. The 100 year history of markings on US Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard aircraft is detailed in drawings, descriptive text, and over 350 photographs from archives, veterans, and the authors personal collections.

This is the history of the Pennsylvania Railroad which handled more freight and passengers than any other railroad in the United States.