Fonthill Media: 289 books
The Avro Manchester
The Legend Behind the Lancaster
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017
This is the definitive account of the Avro Manchester based upon detailed research by Dr Robert Kirby. This new and greatly expanded edition follows on from Dr Kirby's original edition of 1995, containing 30 per cent of additional text and is richly illustrated with more than 200 black and white photographs.In...
The Phantom in Focus
A Navigator's Eye on Britain's Cold War Warrior
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Have you ever wondered what it was like to fly the Phantom? This is not a potted history of an aeroplane, nor is it Hollywood glamour as captured in Top Gun. This is the story of life on the frontline during the Cold War told in the words of a navigator who flew the iconic jet. Unique pictures, many...
New Orleans Fabulous Streetcars
America Through Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
The first street railway opened in New Orleans in 1835. Over the years various methods of powering the streetcars including horses, stream locomotives, overhead cable system, and fireless locomotives were tried. In 1893, electric streetcar operation began. At its peak in 1922, New Orleans had 225...
Strafvollzugslager Der SS- Und Polizei
Himmler’s Wartime Institutions for the Detention of Waffen-SS and Polizei Criminals
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2017
Strafvollzugslager der SS- und Polizei: Himmler’s Wartime Institutions for the Detention of Waffen-SS and Polizei Criminals is a book that the SS Leader, Heinrich Himmler, would not have wished written. Preferring that this corner of SS history remained forever in the shadows, in unprecedented detail,...
by Bruce D. Heald
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Like the old soda fountain in the center of town or the local drive-in movie theater, diners evoke nostalgia and are a lasting symbol of the American dream. The hallmarks of the diner-good prices, quick service and comforting food in ample portions-create a melting pot of patrons. It is where friends...
Messerschmitt Bf 109
The Design and Operational History
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
More than 33,000 Messerschmitt Bf 109s were built between 1935 and 1945, making it the second-most produced warplane of all time. The Bf 109 was the mainstay of Luftwaffe fighter squadrons and the favoured choice of most fighter aces. Bf 109 pilots accounted for thousands of Allied aircraft with individual...
Silent Invaders
Combat Gliders of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
‘The guys would come into the glider like a bunch of piss-ants, skittering around, real cocky like. But they settled down in the glider. Some got airsick and they began thinking about what was ahead. One time we were fired on just as we were landing and exiting the glider and one of the boys was...
249 at Malta
RAF’s Top-Scoring Fighter Squadron
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
By the end of 1941, following its participation in the Battle of Britain, 249 Squadron was posted to Malta. Having been informed that its pilots would be required to fly from the deck of an aircraft carrier, intensive practice flights took place with two Hurricanes fitted with long-range tanks, making...
Wine, Women and Song
A Spitfire Pilot's Story Compiled from Doug Brown's Letters and Reminscences
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
This frank account of New Zealand Spitfire pilot Doug Brown traces his training and action experienced in the RAF and social activities during the war. From 'signing up' as a young 20 year old when World War II broke out in 1939, he ventured to Canada on the Awatea with 200 trainees and then on to...
by Gail Crowther
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2017
The Haunted Reader and Sylvia Plath takes an unusual approach to studies on this enigmatic literary figure, focusing on the readers rather than the historical figure herself. Working from the premise that Plath is a highly visible cultural figure, this book explores why her readers become so attached...
Trunk Monkeys
The Life of a Contract Soldier in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
WARNING! This book contains images some readers may find disturbing.
Trunk Monkeys: The Life of a Contract Soldier in Iraq tells the true story of operators from a private military contractor working in Iraq shortly after the Gulf War. From the perspective of grizzled veteran Lewis Steiner...
Pathan Rising
Jihad on the North West Frontier of India 1897-1898
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Pathan Rising tells the story of the large-scale tribal unrest that erupted along the North West Frontier of India in the late 1890s; a short but sharp period of violence that was initiated by the Pathan tribesmen against the British. Although the exact causes of the unrest remain unclear, it was...
263 and 137 Squadrons
The Whirlwind Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
For many, the Westland Whirlwind conjures the image of yellow air-sea rescue helicopters, not the sleek twin-engine monoplane that was the RAF’s first single-seat, cannon-armed fighter. Although faster and better armed than its legendary cousin, the Spitfire, the Westland Whirlwind has long been...
Unit 731: Laboratory of the Devil, Auschwitz of the East
Japanese Biological Warfare in China 1933-45
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
This book exposes Unit 731 as being the largest bacterial warfare force in the history of the Second World War. Manufacture and the use of biological weapons, the entire process of preparation and implementation of germ warfare, with the reflection on war and human nature, medical and ethical issues,...