Fonthill Media: 289 books
by Arthur G. Credland
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
The Hull Zeppelin Raids 1915-1918 is an account of the eight Zeppelin attacks on this major port city on the east coast of England. The new and dreadful experience of aerial bombardment was terrifying to a civilian population totally unprepared for this type of aerial warfare. Every available artillery...
Adolf Hitler
The Curious and Macabre Anecdotes
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Adolf Hitler was born in Austria in April 1889, and shot himself in a bunker in Berlin in April 1945 with Russian soldiers beating at the door, surrounded by the ruins of the country he had vowed to restore to greatness. Adolf Hitler: The Curious and Macabre Anecdotes - part biography, part miscellany,...
The Price of Fame
The Biography of Dennis Price
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Charming, erudite, and the very personification of the English gentleman, Dennis Price was without doubt also one of the most promising and talented newcomers to the world of theatre and film in the late 1930s, and he arguably reached his screen best in the classic Ealing comedy 'Kind Hearts and Coronets'....
Merchantmen in Action
Evacuations and Landings by Merchant Ships in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
During World War 2, the Merchant Navy's main task was to run the German blockade, bringing essential food, fuel and materials to a besieged nation. The civilian crews came from all parts of the Empire and beyond - more than one in six were killed. Even less is known about the part played by merchantmen...
by Robin Knight
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
This first-ever biography of of Lt. Cdr. Mike Cumberlege DSO & Bar, Greek Medal of Honour, murdered in Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp in Feb/March 1945, recalls a man who was `truly Elizabethan in character-a combination of gaiety and solidity and sensitiveness and poetry with daring and adventurousness-and...
by Kenneth Springirth
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
The Toronto Beaches Lions Club Easter Parade of April 8, 2012 leading off with Toronto Transit Commission historic Presidents’ Conference Committee car No. 4500, vintage Peter Witt car No. 2766, and Canadian Light Rail Vehicle No. 4074 in this view on Queen Street at Woodbine Avenue was witnessed...
Hitler's Deserters
When Law Merged with Terror
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Over 20,000 deserters and war resisters paid the ultimate price at the hands of Hitler's brutal war judges and bloody executioners. Thousands of others died in prison camps and penal battalions. Even for those who escaped death, life was never the same. Even today, many of those who refused to serve...
Skalski Against all Odds
The First Allied Ace of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Skalski Against all Odds: The First Allied Ace of the Second World War provides a gripping and detailed account on the career of General Stanislaw Skalski, the leading Polish fighter ace. Skalski gallantly served from the first day of the Second World War and became the first ace of the conflict....
Never Wars
The US War Plans to Invade the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
Every major government’s military makes plans for waging wars, hoping that they never have to be employed. In the early part of the last century the US government prepared a number of war contingency plans for invading a number of nations—both hostile and friendly. These color-coded plans were...
by Jan Forsgren
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
The iconic and legendary Junkers Ju 52 first flew in 1930. Designed and built by the Junkers Aircraft Company of Dessau, Germany, the Ju 52 was originally intended as a single-engine cargo aircraft. An upgraded model, the Ju 52/3m, was powered by three engines and excelled as an eighteen-seat airliner....
The Boulton Paul Balliol
The Last Merlin-Powered Aircraft
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
The Boulton Paul Balliol was the last British aircraft powered by the iconic Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. Also, the Balliol was the last piston-powered advanced trainer in both the Royal Air Force and the Fleet Air Arm, and yet it began life as the world’s first turbo-trainer. Conceived in the last...
by Christopher George Lewin
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
This is the first book to describe comprehensively the various war games which people have played throughout the ages, from ancient times to the present day. It covers both the games run by governments and those brought out commercially for members of the public. The most important of the official...
by Joe Gleeson
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017
The First World War had an enormous impact on Ireland. Over 240,000 Irish men and women volunteered to serve with the Allied forces, suffering almost 40,000 casualties. The Irish contribution to the air war remains overlooked, not just in Ireland, but also by historians generally. Although just 6,000...
Coastal Patrol
Royal Navy Airship Operations During the Great War 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
In the summer of 1915 the Royal Naval Air Service found itself engaged in an unexpected war at sea, the fight to prevent the German submarine fleet from disrupting the flow of vital supplies to the British Isles, necessary for the conduct of the war. It was a war that had to be won because by the...