Fonthill Media: 289 books
Guarding the Fuhrer
Sepp Dietrich and Adolf Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
German leader Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was one of the most controversial politicians and military commanders in all recorded history. As such, his life was conspired against by all manner of enemies, both foreign and domestic: German and Russian Communists, political and military opponents, rival...
Rise Against Eagles
Stories of RAF Airmen in the Battle of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Rise Against Eagles is a collaborative work presenting exceptional tributes to an array of airmen from various nations who served in the Royal Air Force during critical battles of the Second World War. The story begins at the outbreak of war when Fairey Battle rear-gunner, Bobby Pearce, was sent to...
Fokker Fodder
The Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2c
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Designed as the benchmark against which competitors in the 1912 Military Aeroplane Competition were judged, the B.E.2 outperformed them all and was put into production becoming the most numerous single type in Royal Flying Corps service. The B.E.2c, a later variant, was designed to be inherently stable...
U-Boats off Bermuda
Patrol Summaries and Merchant Ship Survivors Landed in Bermuda 1940-1944
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
For the first time, a book exposes an obscure theatre of the Second World War in great detail and comprehensively, not just in terms of geography, but also from the perspectives of both Allied and Axis participants. U-Boats off Bermuda provides details of specific U-Boat patrols and their commanders,...
My Target Was Leningrad
V Force: Preserving Our Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
On 6 August and 8 August 1945, the world changed forever with the release of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. In January 1947, the United States informed the British Government that they would not provide technical data for the production of nuclear weapons. It was therefore decided...
Hitler's Naval Bases
Kriegsmarine Bases During the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Hitler's U-boats and his dreaded pocket battleships such as Bismarck and Tirpitz - Churchill dubbed the latter as 'The Beast' - continue to fascinate an ever-growing interest in the Second World War. Despite a numerical disadvantage when compared the Royal Navy, Hitler's U-boats wrecked havoc in the...
Tirpitz
The Life and Death of Germany's Last Great Battleship
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2018
Referred to by Winston Churchill as `the Beast', `Tirpitz' was Germany's last great battleship and was one of the largest and heaviest battleships ever constructed by a European navy. Sister ship to the infamous `Bismarck', `Tirpitz' may be referred to as `the Lonely Queen of the North'. Laid down...
Yank Bomber Boys in Norfolk
A Photographic Record of the USAAF in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
During the Second World War, thousands of American servicemen were uprooted from the US and deposited in rural England and immediately thrust unceremoniously into the frontline of the largest conflict the world has ever seen. Fortunately, many remembered to pack small cameras in kitbags and snapped...
Exercise Tiger
The Forgotten Sacrifice of the Silent Few
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Exercise Tiger: A series of operations off the South Devon coast in the spring of 1944, rehearsing for the forthcoming D-Day landings. Shrouded in mystery, one of these exercises ended in disaster for over 600 young American servicemen, as their operation was discovered by a patrol of German e-boats,...
by Patrick Delaforce
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
Early in 1945 the British Liberation Army (BLA), who had battled their way from the Normandy beaches to the borders of Germany, embarked on Operation Eclipse. This was the end-game of the Second World War, the unique military campaign to invade and conquer Hitler s Third Reich and liberate 20 million...
The 110th Holds in the Ardennes
The Blunting of Hitler’s Last Gamble and the Invasion of the Reich
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
In the early hours of 16 December 1944, the 28th Division received a message from headquarters informing them to ‘Hold at all costs’. From 05.30 that morning until 18 December, the men of the 110th Infantry Regiment fought and held, giving ground only when forced out, but buying precious time...
Volunteers and Pressed Men
How Britain and its Empire Raised its Forces in Two World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2017
The great heroic myth of 20th century British history is that after the fall of France in June 1940, Britain ‘stood alone’. This does a great disservice to the millions of men and women from around the world who rallied to the British cause. As in 1914-1918, Britain in 1939-1945 could call on...
Norway 1940
Chronicle of a Chaotic Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2017
Ostensibly fought for control of Swedish iron ore to Germany, the Norwegian campaign made an important but largely overlooked contribution to the conduct of the Second World War. It convincingly proved the supremacy of air power in modern warfare and, particularly, the vulnerability of land and sea...
by Keith Dockray
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
For historians of the Wars of the Roses William Shakespeare is both a curse and a blessing: a curse because he immortalized Tudor spin on fifteenth-century civil wars that helped justify Elizabeth I's occupation of the English throne; a blessing because, without Shakespeare's 8 -play Plantagenet history...