Fonthill Media: 289 books
Bismarck and Hood: The Battle of the Denmark Strait
A Technical Analysis for a New Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
The legendary Battle of the Denmark Strait, which saw the mighty German battleship Bismarck sink Britain's HMS Hood in an epic duel of the titans, has been dogged by controversy to this day. Was the doomed HMS Hood really sunk by a shell that penetrated her wooden decks to explode in one of her magazine...
by Noel Stokoe
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Jowett brothers William and Ben of Bradford, Yorkshire, built their first car in 1906 and went into production in 1910, building forty-eight cars by 1916. The factory then switched to munitions work during the First World War. Car production resumed in 1920 and sales went from strength to strength....
America's Bloody Hill of Destiny
A New Look at the Struggle for Little Round Top, Gettysburg, July 2, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2018
No chapter in the annals of the most important battle of America's national epic has been more celebrated than the key struggle for possession of the rocky hill at the extreme southern flank of the battle line at Gettysburg, Little Round Top. And no contest during the battle of Gettysburg was deadlier...
Gettysburg's Most Hellish Battleground
The Devil’s Den, July 2, 1863
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
During the crucial three days of combat at Gettysburg, the most nightmarish place on the entire battlefield was appropriately named the Devil's Den. This jumble of huge boulders situated at the southern end of Houck's Ridge was truly a hell on earth during the decisive afternoon of July 2, 1863.
The...
At Close Quarters
SOE Close Combat Pistol Instructor Colonel Hector Grant-Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was the paramount Allied sabotage force of the Second World War. Its job - in Churchill's words - was to "set Europe ablaze" through the use of sabotage, insurrection and assassination. One of its "shining Stars" and "legends" was the close-combat pistol instructor,...
Cults
A Bloodstained History
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Throughout history there has always been one thing that has influenced the way people lived and how they interacted: religion. Not only has religion been a source of peace and prosperity, it has also been the cause of many wars, murders and destruction.
We begin with Joshua’s wars in 1500...
by Woodson J. Savage
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
You might be surprised to learn that many of the consumer brands and products we enjoy today exist because of streetcar advertising. The Industrial Revolution of the early 1900 s and a massive consumer audience riding over 50,000 streetcars in nearly 3,000 cities and towns in every state of the union...
Electric Light Orchestra
Song by Song
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
ELO (Electric Light Orchestra) were formed by Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne of The Move as a fusion of rock and contemporary classical-style music, combining orchestral instruments, guitars, keyboards, and drums in the same line-up. Their aim was to continue from where The Beatles’ ‘I am the Walrus’...
by Tim McLelland
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Lavishly illustrated with period photography providing a pictorial history of Britain’s Cold War bombers
Exclusive first-hand accounts from pilots and aircrew provide a unique insight into flying and fighting in aircraft designed to take the fight to the Soviet Union
193 mono and 66 colour photographs...
Short Stirling
The First of the RAF Heavy Bombers
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Short Stirling: The First of the RAF Heavy Bombers is dedicated to the RAF's first four-engine heavy bomber and is the culmination of an incredible 30 years' comprehensive research. Illustrated with largely unpublished wartime photographs, it describes the design, construction and factories where...
by William G. Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
John T. Farnham, a sharpshooter in the Union Army, wrote a substantial diary entry nearly every day during his three-year enlistment, sent over 50 long articles to his hometown newspaper, and mailed some 600 letters home. He described training, battles, skirmishes, encampments, furloughs, marches,...
by Charles R. G. Bain
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
The Second World War saw the apex of piston-engine aircraft design, and ushered the world into the jet age. Anybody who studies aviation will know the names: Spitfire, Mustang, Zero, Messerschmitt, Shturmovik. But there were many more aircraft to take to the skies before and during the war, and frequently...
The Zeppelin
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
For a brief period in the early Twentieth Century, it seemed as if the future of air travel lay with the giant airships of Count von Zeppelin. The First World War ended that dream, fixed-wing aircraft superseding the slow moving and unwieldy airships. As weapons of war, the Zeppelins were never truly...
Mustang
Thoroughbred Stallion of the Air
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book covers the P/F-51 Mustang and each of its many variants and spin-offs including the A-36 Apache, F-6 Photo Mustang, F-82 Twin Mustang and others. It discusses the Mustangs used by all US allies and friends in many foreign air forces. Also, it adds to the story of its creation through the...