Fonthill Media: 289 books
by Roy Brazier
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2017
The East of England, particularly Suffolk, became a new home for thousands of American airmen during the Second World War. After their arrival in 1942, there were over 10,000 in the country by 1943. The largest concentration was in Suffolk, which had more USA airfields than any other English county....
by Hauptmann Hermann
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
"The Luftwaffe - the German Air Force - will no longer have a decisive influence on the outcome of World War II, no matter how long it takes to beat Hitler." It is more than two years since I first heard these words. The man who spoke them to me continued: "No doubt, we will hear of the Luftwaffe...
The Other Ninth Air Force
Ninth US Army Light Aircraft Operations in Europe 1944-45
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
This book is a detailed look at how the Artillery Air Section of a US Army Headquarters functioned during the Second World War in Europe. It relates how its Air Observation Post aircraft were procured, crewed and operated, as recorded by the officer responsible for such matters. In this instance the...
Fallen Giants
The Combat Debut of the T-35A Tank
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The Soviet T-35A is the only five-turret tank in history to enter production. With a long and proud service history on parade grounds, the T-35A was forced to adapt to the modern battlefield. Outclassed and outdated, the T-35A tried to hold its own against German invaders with terrible consequences.
Fallen...
by Tor Idar Larsen
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Major Leif Lundsten flew hundreds of Spitfires during the Second World War. As a fighter pilot with 331 Squadron and test pilot with Vickers-Armstrong, he strapped on as many as seven different marks of Spitfires. All the way from the early mark II up to the rare, brutal XII version. Following Lundsten...
Cock o' the North
Gresley's Bold Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
On 22 May 1934 a zenith of locomotive construction in the UK was reached when an enormous new locomotive entered traffic for the London & North Eastern Railway Company. The impressive engine was P2 Class no. 2001 Cock o’ the North and it was painstakingly erected to the designs of eminent locomotive...
Prehistoric Pathfinders
Pioneers of English Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
This work draws together a series of pen-portraits of some 40 individuals who helped shape the foundations of English prehistoric and later study, mainly during the 18th and 19th centuries. They represented a diverse cross-section of contemporary society including army officers, churchmen, country...
Dallas 50 Years On
The Murder of John F. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
JFK had won the Presidency in 1960 by a razor thin majority, and his re-election campaign for 1964 was expected to be as close. He began it in November 1963 with a kick-off multi-city, four-day swing across the important state of Texas. It was going unexpectedly well when shots were fired into his...
Viking Spitfire
The Story of Finn Thorsager
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
9 April 1940: Finn Thorsager was the first Norwegian to open fire on invading German forces. He was credited with shooting down an enemy aircraft in a Gloster Gladiator biplane that dark morning, and made Norwegian history. Thorsager escaped the Nazi occupation, and fled Norway in the autumn of 1940....
The All-British Marendaz Special
The Man, Cars and Aeroplanes
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
++ Includes 132 black-and-white and colour photographs ++ This is the story of Captain Marendaz, a pilot in the RFC in the Great War and his life as a manufacturer of cars in the 1920s and 1930s when he competed extensively at Brooklands and elsewhere, before moving on to designing and building aircraft....
RAF Special Duties
Unique Sorties of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
During the Second World War, the RAF employed Special Duties pilots and aircrew on operations across a wide range of extraordinary and daredevil missions. In many instances, specially selected and trained crews flew specific sorties, seeking out small targets of utmost importance to the war effort....
SS-Major Horst Kopkow
From the Gestapo to British Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
On 27 May 1942, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated by Czech agents who were trained in the UK and dropped by parachute into Czechoslovakia. Heydrich succumbed to his wounds on 4 June 1942. Two days later, Gestapo Captain Horst Kopkow’s department at Reich National Security headquarters...
Fighters over Malta
Gladiators and Hurricanes 1940-1942
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
All known combat claims and losses
Many personal accounts and memories of the battle
Illustrated with new and rarely seen photographs
Brian Cull and Frederick Galea’s definitive Fighters over Malta: Gladiators and Hurricanes 1940-1942 is a highly-detailed account of the gallant band of RAF and...
Battle for the Channel
The First Month of the Battle of Britain 10 July-10 August 1940
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
10 July, the official first day of the Battle of Britain, witnessed increased aerial activity over the English Channel and along the eastern and southern seaboards of the British coastline. The main assaults by ever-increasing formations of Luftwaffe bombers, escorted by Bf 109 and Bf 110 fighters,...