Fonthill Media: 289 books
by Peter C. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
With the invasion of Russia by Germany in 1941, Britain gained a new ally and a responsibility to provide material for the new front. More than four million tonnes of supplies such as tanks, fighters, bombers, ammunition, raw materials and food were transported to Russia during a four-year period....
Japan at War 1931-45
As the Cherry Blossom Falls
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This fascinating history, recounted from both the American and Japanese perspectives, follows the course of the Empire of the Sun's ultimately unequal struggle against the great allied powers. Drawing on archive material, this new history provides the reader with piercing strategic and political insights...
Blueprint for Victory
Britain’s First World War Blitzkrieg Air Force
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
In 1940, the British Army was unceremoniously bundled out of Norway, Belgium and France. A year later, it was the same story in Greece. The complaint from embittered generals and soldiers was always the same: no air support and it seemed the RAF had a lot to learn about how to fight a modern war....
The RAF in the Battle of France and the Battle of Britain
A Reappraisal of Army and Air Policy 1938
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
ln May 1940, the German Army and the Allied forces they faced were fairly evenly matched. Two months later, Britain was on her own, hopelessly outnumbered and facing imminent defeat. Should the RAF have done more to support the Allied armies in France? Could the RAF have protected the British Army...
The Fairey Battle
A Reassessment of its RAF Career
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The Fairey Battle is best known for being one of the worst aircraft to serve in the Royal Air Force. On operations, it suffered the highest loss rate of any plane in the RAF’s history. The missions flown by its brave crews became a byword for hopelessness and futility. Born out of muddled thinking,...
Unwanted Hero
The Flying Career of Squadron Leader Donald Barnard DFC, 1937-1955
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Donald Barnard came to England from St Lucia to join the RAF as a bomber pilot. On his second tour of operations, he was shot down over northern France in September 1942. He was rewarded with the Distinguished Flying Cross whilst missing in action. Donald evaded capture; assisted to Spain by an escape...
Military Aviation in the First World War
The Aces of the Allies and the Central Powers
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This beautifully illustrated book provides details of every power that took part in Military aircraft activity during the First World War. The war was a global conflict with 57 nations involved but with aviation being in its infancy only eight nations had a major air arm to their fighting Services....
Munich Playground
The Nazi Leadership at Rest and Play
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017
As senior correspondent for Reuters in Munich from 1936-1941, American Ernest Pope saw the cruel and outrageous behavior of Nazis in their native habitat. In Munich they ran wild, let their hair down, and indulged in every fantasy money and power could avail them. Pope has all the gossip...and the...
by Philip J. Birtles
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2016
The de Havilland Mosquito was the fastest RAF aircraft when it entered service in September 1941 with a speed 20 mph faster than the Spitfire. Made from wood, a non-strategic material using non-strategic labour, the Mosquito was the original multi-role combat aircraft which excelled as an unarmed...
by Alan Dawes
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This is the first comprehensive account in English of the development and operation of one of Russia’s lesser known post-war jet fighters. Only ever operated over the former Soviet Union’s vast northern territory by an elite group of Soviet Air Force aircrew, it was little known even to most Russian...
by David Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
A wide-ranging history of the Vampire throughout its 46-year service history with the RAF, Fleet Air Arm and twenty-nine foreign air forces. A story that is of interest to aviation historians and those with a fascination in early jet aircraft, which also includes a new lease of life on the Warbirds...
Operational Test
Honing the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The process to deliver a combat aircraft from concept to service is measured in decades. Described as a weapon system, designs such as the Eurofighter Typhoon are intricate jigsaws of new techniques and emerging technologies. By the time a new weapons system reaches the frontline, it will have been...
Flying Blind
The Story of a Second World War Night Fighter Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
Bryan Wild joined the RAF in 1940, a raw recruit not long out of school. Over the next five years, he flew fourteen different types of aircraft and saw action over Britain, North Africa, the Mediterranean and Germany. His memoirs capture the daily life of an ordinary RAF pilot: the thrill of flying...
Blacks in Gray Uniforms
A New Look at the South's Most Forgotten Combat Troops 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
This ground-breaking book takes an insightful and close "New Look" at one of the most fascinating subjects of the Civil War--the long-overlooked battlefield contributions of the most forgotten fighting men of the Civil War, Black Confederates. With the release of the popular 1989 film Glory,...