New Releases by Chris Ellis

Russell Brockbank (1913-1979) was best known for his motoring, motor racing and aviation cartoons. His work was published in numerous magazines and journals, including Motor, Punch and Lilliput, and collections of his work appeared in several books, such as The Penguin Brockbank (1963), Brockbank''s Grand Prix (1973) and The Best of Brockbank (1975). His association with Punch lasted over 30 years, and he was Art Editor from 1949 to 1960. He provided a weekly cartoon to Motor for over 20 years, often featuring his character ''Major Upset''. Brockbank''s cartoons were characterized by a high degree of draftsmanship and he often went to great lengths to ensure that the cars and aircraft in his cartoons were as true-to-life as possible. They are also deliciously funny, so much so that many rate his as one of the top cartoonists from any genre. This book, using material provided by his daughter, would feature 100 of his best cartoons in an inexpensive, landscape-format paperback.

The extremely calculated nature of heinous crimes and their perpetrators means that many leave little to no evidence. Often these cases are left open with scant hope of resolution, usually to the horror of affected families and friends. But thanks to rapidly developing advances in forensic techniques—especially in the fields of psychological, psychic, and DNA profiling—an increasing number of cases are being reexamined and solved years after the crimes were committed. Collected here are the incredible true stories of how some the most horrific murderers in existence were caught using astounding and unusual methods, sometimes decades after the fact. Filled with alarming crimes and captivating investigative techniques, these stories are proof that there is no such thing as a perfect murder.

Construction of a tank road through part of Salisbury Plain, from Warminster to Tilshead, has revealed archaeological remains dating from the Neolithic up to the modern use of the Plain for military training. Excavation adjacent to Battlesbury Camp hillfort has uncovered Late Bronze Age to Middle Iron Age settlement activity including ditches, roundhouses, four-post structures and numerous pits. Some of the pits contained human burials, and other deposits of artefacts and animal bones appear to have been formally placed. Detailed environmental investigation has provided information about both the nature of the on-site activities and the character of the surrounding landscape. Other sites investigated along the tank road included a round barrow and a multiple inhumation and cremation burial of Early Bronze Age date, a Middle Bronze Age enclosure, Late Bronze Age settlement sites, the ''Old Ditch'' Wessex Linear earthwork and evidence for Romano-British settlement and landuse.

Each title in this series examines two units - their organisation, order of battle and how this changed, their battle history, their insignia and markings, and their top people. This volume covers German 21st Panzer and British 7th (BR) Armoured Division.

Offers suggestions for starting and building your model railway.

This book is filled with useful and practical language learning strategies designed to help doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers to learn an African language through their daily contact with patients in Africa. More than this, it gives advice on ways to reach some understanding of the culture, health beliefs and world views of the patient in a medical consultation. Although English/Zulu and the Zulu medical culture are used as the examples, the underlying themes are applicable to any culture. The book has retained the humor and wit of its predecessor, Learning Language and Culture in the Medical Consultation, but it has been considerably revised and expanded to include more material on the cross-cultural consultation and the AIDS pandemic, as well as appendices of vocabulary and "survival phrases" designed to facilitate communication and understanding in a medical context.

Officially a part of the Luftwaffe, Germany''s parachute units were organized into the 7th Flieger Division in July 1938 under General Kurt Student. In the German invasion of France and the Low Countries in 1940 the parachute units stunned the world and laid the basis for an airborne mystique that has endured to the present day. The division also fought in Norway, Greece and Crete before surrendering in Italy in 1945. Each Spearhead title includes an evaluation of the units combat effectiveness as seen by the unit, its opponents and subsequent researchers, and a research section including a bibliography and a listing of museums, websites, re-enactment groups and memorials.

The new Spearhead series is designed to look at the cutting edge of war, dealing with units capable of operating completely independently in the forefront of battle. Each volume in the series examines a historic unit''s origins, history, organization, order of battle, battle history, insignia and markings. The 21st Panzer Division gained greatest fame in North Africa, but also served in Normandy and on the Russian Front. Each Spearhead title includes an evaluation of the units combat effectiveness as seen by the unit, its opponents and subsequent researchers, and a research section including a bibliography and a listing of museums, websites, re-enactment groups and memorials.

This complete illustrated history of British, American and Commonwealth tanks, gun motor carriages and special-purpose vehicles between 1939 and 1945 provides a detailed history of each type, plus full pictorial coverage of the many variants which were produced on each chassis.

The Number Crew programmes are produced for Channel 4 Schools by Open Mind Productions. This story was adapted from the scripts written by Chris Ellis.

Featuring one hundred illustrations, an introduction to a fascinating and complex hobby is a guide to model trains from the golden age of Lionels, Ives, Ma+a5rklin, and Hornby to the exciting models of today.

The German Army, which fought in World War 2 from Finland in the north to the Sahara in the south, from France in the west to Russia in the east, was one of the most potent military forces the world has ever seen. Chris Ellis provides a detailed handbook to the German army of the period, its history, its organization, its uniforms and its equipment.

Water is one of the most fascinating elements in our lives. Without it, none of us would be here, and our planet would be a very different place.

"Vehicles at War" shows how military vehicles, from humble cargo trucks to tanks, were developed over the years to meet the changing styles of transport and warfare in the industrialized age. The complete transformation from using the horse as chief mode of transportation to complete mechanization took approximately forty years, and was not at an end until the beginning of World War II. Even during that conflict, a not insignificant portion of European armies still used the horse as their major means of transport.