Fonthill Media: 289 books
Sustaining Air Power
Royal Air Force Logistics since 1918
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Draws on 25 years of original and exhaustive research
Richly illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs
Content and style will appeal to a wide readership
The Royal Air Force is the world’s oldest independent air arm, yet little has been written about its logistics. This ground-breaking...
The Lion and the Rose
The 4th Battalion The King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1914-1919
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
The Lion and the Rose tells the story of an infantry battalion in the Great War. Based on many unpublished sources, the book narrates the individual parts played by nearly 2,000 of those who served with the 4th King’s Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment from the day that war was declared in 1914 until...
Fuel Fire And Fear
RAF Flight Engineer at War
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2018
During the Second World War the need for an on-board technical expert to join the Bomber Crews evolved. The various systems on the latest 4-engined 'Heavy Bombers', namely the Handley Page Halifax, Shorts Stirling and Avro Lancaster witnessed the development of Flight Engineers. This book provides...
Fighters Over the Falklands
Defending the Islanders' Way of Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Fighters Over The Falklands captures daily life using pictures taken during the author's tours of duty on the Islands. From the first detachments of Phantoms and Rapiers operating from a rapidly upgraded RAF Stanley airfield to life at RAF Mount Pleasant, see life from the author's perspective as...
B-24 Bridge Busters
RAF Liberators Over Burma
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
B-24 Bridge Busters: RAF Liberators over Burma provides a gripping and detailed account of RAF Liberator missions against the Japanese in Asia. British and Commonwealth aircrews displayed great gallantry in many instances on low-level precise bombing sorties destroying specific targets, including...
by Malcolm Fife
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
Numerous books have been written on airships, but few concentrate on their bases and infrastructure to support their operations. British Airship Bases of the Twentieth Century starts with documenting the primitive facilities from which the early machines flew in the years prior to the First World...
First of the Few
5 June - 9 July 1940
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
During the Battle of France, the handful of RAF squadrons were heavily engaged. The Luftwaffe commenced raids over England and during July, German aircraft were harrying shipping in the Channel. Many of the RAF aircrews experiencing combat for the first time survived as the ‘first of the few’...
by Patrick Delaforce
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
This is the second volume, but the last to be published of a trilogy - the other volumes being Smashing the Atlantic Wall and The Battle of the Bulge. Monty's Rhine Adventure begins immediately after the Normandy invasion with the euphoria surrounding the belief that the war would soon be won. However,...
Pink Floyd
Song by Song
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
From ‘Arnold Layne’ to ‘Louder than Words’, Pink Floyd wrote about anger, isolation, regret, dismay, and fear. These themes, not always obvious starting points in popular music, were married to a rare dynamism that would make Pink Floyd stand out from the crowd.
Pink Floyd’s most...
by Paul Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
From spit roasting pig to hanging cream cheese from the rafters, from baking roast pork under the ground in pits to cooking trout on wicker frames over an open fire, cooking techniques in prehistoric Britain are ingenious and revealing. There were no ovens and many vegetables and breeds of animal...
by Paul Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The New Kingdom of Egypt marks the apogee of military organisation and preparedness. Beginning the era under foreign occupation, the Egyptians built up an army to challenge the invaders and liberate their land. Using the newest battlefield technologies (bows, chariots, and hand weapons), the new pharaohs...
Naval Frogmen
Wartime Underwater Operations
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
The first modern frogmen were the Italian commando frogmen of Decima Flottiglia MAS which was first in action in 1940. They were nicknamed Uomini Rana, Italian for frogmen, because of their swimming frog kick style and because their fins looked like frogs’ feet. Their success against Royal Navy...
Rapid Rundown
RAF Operations in the Middle and Far East 1945-1948
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2017
The immediate post-VJ-Day period of RAF history is often consigned to be little more than a footnote in most published accounts. In this first detailed look at the RAF in the Middle and Far East regions in the three years following the end of the war, the RAF’s role in stemming the flow of immigrants...
The Anglo-Saxon Avon Valley Frontier
A River of Two Halves
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
The Anglo-Saxon AvonValley Frontier: A River of Two Halves is a ground-breaking exploration of the Anglo-Saxon ‘Avon Valley frontier’, combining archaeology and documentary sources to present a case for remarkable continuity as measured by a wide range of evidence. Based on research in the department...