Fonthill Media: 289 books
The Chamberlains
Joseph, Austen and Neville 1836-1940
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017
The Chamberlains were a unique urban dynasty. The locus of their power was the previously underdeveloped Midlands industrial city of Birmingham: for sixty-four unbroken years, they represented it in Parliament. A family belonging to the Nonconformist elite which dominated the city socially and commercially,...
The Fighting Wessex Wyverns
From Normandy to Bremerhaven with the 43rd Wessex Division
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Commanded by the controversial Major-General Ivo Thomas, the 43rd (Wessex) Division was branded the Fighting Yellow Devils’ out of respect by its Wehrmacht and Waffen SS opponents. The 43rd’s distinctive divisional badge of a golden Wyvern — half-serpent half-dragon — was to be seen in all...
The Polar Bears
Monty's Left Flank: from Normandy to the Relief of Holland with the 49th Division
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Originally a Territorial unit with its roots in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the 49th Infantry Division saw action in the ill-fated Norwegian campaign in 1940, before it was appointed to garrison Iceland where it stayed for two years. In August 1944, under the command of the Canadian Army, the Polar...
Tupolev Tu-2
The Forgotten Medium Bomber
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Although one of the best medium bombers of the Second World War, fast, tough, and with an excellent bomb load, the Tu-2 is little known in the West. This book provides a comprehensive history of this important aeroplane, complete with its developmental history in the Second World War and later, and...
by Malcolm Edward Tudor
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Here is the remarkable story of the Allied servicemen who took part in the guerrilla war against Nazis and Fascists in Second World War Italy. The partisans included Britons, Australians, Canadians, New Zealanders, South Africans, Americans, Russians, Poles and Yugoslavs. Most were escaped prisoners...
Deveron to Devastation
Brother Officers of the 7th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in WW1
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Daniel Reid was killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele. His body was never recovered; however, there is nothing singular about that. What is remarkable is that his eloquent journal has survived untouched for 100 years. The context for Alexander Daniel Reid’s...
Chitral 1895
An Episode of the Great Game
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
In 1895, a small Indian Army garrison, commanded by Surgeon-Major Sir George Scott Robertson and Captain Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend, was besieged by a Chitrali and Pathan army at the fort of Chitral. Despite the odds heavily stacked against them, Robertson’s beleaguered little garrison held...
A Man Called Plenty Horses
The Last Warrior of the Great Plains War
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2018
On January 7, 1891, in the immediate aftermath to the assassination of Sitting Bull and the massacre at Wounded Knee Creek, an obscure Sioux Indian shot and killed one Lieutenant Casey in cold blood. This is the forgotten story of the civil trials of Plenty Horses for the murder of the last Whiteman...
by Chris Sams
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
German raiders posed an incredible threat against the Allied forces in August 1914, particularly to British merchant vessels and their naval superiority. As the world plunged into war, two fleets of German raiders and cruisers lay beyond the North Sea. Several German admirals ventured across the world,...
The History of the Galician Division of the Waffen SS: Volume One
On the Eastern Front, April 1943 to July 1944
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2017
The History of the Galician Division of the Waffen SS – Volume One: On the Eastern Front, April 1943 to July 1944 is the first volume of a two-part set on the history of the Galician Division based on twenty-five years’ research by historian Michael James Melnyk. The author has sourced additional...
The History of the Galician Division of the Waffen SS: Volume Two
Stalin’s Nemesis
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Lavishly illustrated with 185 photographs, many previously unpublished and rare
Utilises new material about every aspect of the formation
Includes unique first-hand accounts from interviews with the last surviving veterans
The last ever opportunity to capture the accounts of the participants
The...
A Royal Engineer at War 1940-1945
From Crossing the Desert to Crossing the Rhine
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
A Royal Engineer at War 1940-1945: From Crossing the Desert to Crossing the Rhine is a British soldier’s account of his life, both private and militarily, while serving with the Corps of Royal Engineers between 1940 and 1946. Based on the diaries of Driver First Class Robert ‘Robb’ Jones, the...
From Gazala to Tunis
422 Days in the Life of the 2nd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
From Gazala to Tunisia: 422 Days in the Life of the 2nd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade is the story of the riflemen and their battles of Gazala to the successful end of the North African campaign. These 422 days include the bitter battles of Gazala, the conflict around the Cauldron, the loss of Tobruk...
47 Royal Marine Commando
An Inside Story 1943-1946
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
47 Royal Marine Commando: An Inside Story 1943–1946 tells the story of 47 Royal Marine Commando in the Second World War, based on personal accounts written by veterans who served in the conflict. From the bloody D-Day landings in Normandy to fierce battles in Holland, young men were taken prisoner...