Fonthill Media: 289 books
by Craig Cabell
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
When Hitler unleashed his V1 and V2 rockets on Great Britain in 1944, it was the first military attack on the British civilian population without invasion. Innocent families were wiped out without mercy and terror gripped the nation. Churchill and the Crossbow Committee knew that widespread panic...
by Michael Young
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
James VI & I, the namesake of the King James Version of the Bible, had a series of notorious male favourites. No one denies that these relationships were amorous, but were they sexual? Michael B. Young merges political history with recent scholarship in the history of sexuality to answer that...
Sawdust Sisterhood
How Circus Empowered Women
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Period newspaper reports give an insight into how the role of women in the circus developed across the ages
Intriguing individual female performers involved in the circus, their public and private lives
A ringside seat at the greatest show on earth!
‘This book fulfils a great need in...
by Gordon Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2016
** This electronic edition includes 60 black-and-white photographs **
There are many biographies of former soldiers of the Wehrmacht, many of whom had fascinating and exciting stories to tell, and several of whom were highly decorated. However, few can match Hans Sturm in his astonishing rise...
by Michael Foley
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
With the end of the First World War, British troops crossed the Rhine and entered a country torn by violence where revolution seemed likely. Also, there was a threat of the war resuming if Germany refused to accept Allied terms. British forces were plunged into the turmoil of a defeated country and...
by Roger Mason
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
There have been fifty-four Prime Ministers in Britain, from Sir Robert Walpole to Theresa May, and this volume will explore each of them in varying depth. Each chapter will start with a mini-biography, providing details of the Prime Minister's life and career before moving on to a number of anecdotes...
by Gebhard Aders
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
The German Night Fighter force had its origins in the First World War to repel night raids and to fly long-range intruder sorties. They developed operational procedures which became largely forgotten a few years after the Armistice. The Western Allies, Britain and France, maintained and improved night-fighting...
Sinking the Beast
The RAF 1944 Lancaster Raids Against Tirpitz
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
During the autumn of 1944, three RAF raids - using Avro Lancaster heavy bombers - finally sank the German battleship Tirpitz. Many previous attempts, including the use of midget submarines and raids by carrier-based aircraft, had damaged Tirpitz at her Norwegian hideout. Throughout the war, Tirpitz...
Dearest Bess
The Life and Times of Lady Elizabeth Foster Afterwards Duchess of Devonshire
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Elizabeth Foster, 'Bess' is one of the larger than life characters that occasionally flits across the pages of history. Born in 1757 as Elizabeth Christiana Hervey, the daughter of the eccentric Frederick Hervey, Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry, she led a privileged life and married John Thomas...
A Tank Gunner's Story
Gunner Gruntz of the 712th Tank Battalion
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
A 712th Tank Battalion veteran of Patton's Third Army returned home after the Second World War, but for over fifty years rarely speaks of his wartime experiences. His son grows to manhood with only a perception of combat gleaned from the movies of his youth and knowing little of his father's wartime...
Monte Cassino January-May 1944
The Legend of the Green Devils
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
In 1944, two Allied armies were ready to launch an assault against German forces in central Italy so they could march to Rome. There were three routes available to get there. The fastest one passed through the Liri valley. The entrance to the valley, however, was blocked by the rugged Monte Cassino...
by Rothesay Stuart Wortley
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
This classic text was originally intended, when it first appeared in 1928, as propaganda for air-minded youth, these letters and diaries in fact tell the story of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force from August 1914 to the Armistice four years later.The book is beautifully written-equal to...
Voices of Colditz
Handwritten Accounts by Allied Officers Inside Oflag IV-C
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Rarely does a piece of history emerge to tell a significant tale after nearly 70 years in a bedroom drawer. Recovered and brought back to Britain in 1945, a battered log book from a Canadian Red Cross parcel now reveals its long-held secrets though over a hundred hand-written stories.
In 1942,...
The Forgotten Army
A Burma Soldier's Story in Letters, Photographs and Sketches
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
The Forgotten Army consists of the letters, photos and sketches of a soldier fighting the Japanese in Burma that were sent home to the author's parents in Lancashire. Call-up documents, medical certificate, service pay book, discharge papers, letter index, family tree, news cuttings, leaflets, and...