Fonthill Media: 289 books
Whirlwind
Westland's Enigmatic Fighter
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Faster and better armed than the Spitfire, the Whirlwind was the RAF s response to a new generation of armoured German bombers which it expected to meet over England in 1940. A few months after its first flight, 1,000 Whirlwinds were ordered, but nine months later the RAF cancelled the entire programme....
Rorke's Drift
A New Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
The battle of Rorke's Drift is established in history as one of Britain's most incredible actions where approximately 155 defenders held off a Zulu force of over 4,000 warriors, in a savage, bloody conflict with no quarter given by either side. The battle led to a display of incredible fortitude,...
by John William Wickwar
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Wickwar brings commonsense and rational thought to a subject which is often unnecessarily sensationalized. He ventures to a degree into the psycho-analytical sphere, but only inasmuch as to provide explanations for why people acted as they did. This is combined with excellent historical records and...
by Garth Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
By the time it was over, eight of the crew and nine rescuers were dead and scores more had been put in harm’s way.
The disappearance and search for the airship Italia was headline news, all over the world, for months after its last radio message on 25 May 1928. It had reported being to the...
Texans at Antietam
A Terrible Clash of Arms, September 16-17, 1862
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The soldiers in Hood’s Texas Brigade who fought at Antietam on September 16-17, 1862, described intense and harrowing experiences of the fierce battle in the days, weeks and decades after the battle. Their experiences were written in official reports, diary entries, interviews, newspaper articles,...
by Joseph L Owen, Randy S Drais
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
The Texans from Hood's Texas Brigade and other regiments who fought at Gettysburg on 1-3 July 1863 described their experiences of the battle in personal diaries, interviews, newspaper articles, letters and speeches. Their reminiscences provide a fascinating and harrowing account of the battle as they...
This Is What Hell Looks Like
Life as a Bomb Disposal Specialist During the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
From 1967-1971, Stuart Steinberg served in the U.S. Army as an explosive ordnance disposal specialist. In January 1968, he was sent to Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah, where chemical and biological weaponry was stockpiled, staying there until July 1968. Steinberg was involved in helping to clean up...
Patrolling the Cold War Skies
Reheat Sunset
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
A RAF pilot’s view of the Cold War, which conveys the excitement, danger and comedy of flying during that momentous historic period. Crafted to satisfy all aviation enthusiasts, novice and professional alike
The Cold War is the hot topic of the moment. This book covers 28 years of patrolling the...
RAF Liberators Over Burma
Flying With 159 Squadron
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The RAF air war versus Japan in the Far East is grossly under-represented in print; the Kirkness memoir lessens this gap with its valuable contributions
Thirty-two combat ops may seem like too many to individually chronicle in a single memoir; however, each op’s narrative is compellingly, and uniquely,...
Operation Tonga
The Glider Assault: 6 June 1944
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Operation Tonga – The Glider Assault: 6 June 1944 is an account of the Glider Pilot Regiment’s role in Operation Tonga, the first stage of the airborne assault in the Normandy landings in June 1944. The story is told through the eyes of those who were there – glider pilots, paratroopers, pathfinders,...
by Paul Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
Walk the Wall, gaze northwards across hostile territory, man the turrets and milecastles… What was life like for the Roman troops stationed on Hadrian’s Wall? Follow the life of one man, a Tungrian soldier, through recruitment, training, garrison duty and war. Focussing on a single point in time...
Gwennie’s Diary
A Young Kiwi in England at the Outbreak of War
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
In 2003, a heavy parcel posted from New Zealand arrived at a bungalow in Rawmarsh, Near Rotherham,Yorkshire. The parcel consisted of a huge, typewritten diary produced by Gwennie Peacock, a young woman from Auckland, while completing a journey around the world and visiting her family in Britain.
This...
by David Veasey
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2017
New Jersey's rich architectural heritage is often overshadowed by the built environment of its metropolitan neighbours of Philadelphia and New York City Benjamin Franklin s proverbial barrel tapped at both ends. But New Jersey has more diverse every-day colonial architecture than either New York state...
Kustenflieger
The Operational History of the German Naval Air Service 1935-1944
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
From its very inception, the little-known Küstenfliegergruppen, the German coastal air service, was hindered by restrictions imposed at the Treaty of Versailles and the rising dominance of Hermann Göring s Luftwaffe. Its size, capability and mandate were suppressed, and in 1944, the last Küstenfliegerstaffeln...