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The more than 150 historic items showcased here include documents, letters, images, and artifacts, many never before published

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Accompanying the British Museums current blockbuster exhibition, this is a beautifully produced catalogue, featuring over 250 objects from the excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum.

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Focusing on their last elected leader, Moctezuma II, this book explores the world of Aztecs. It looks at their origins, the founding of their capital city Tenochtitlan, the structure of their society, their religious beliefs and ceremonies, their military prowess, their art and architecture, and their network of long-distance trade and tribute.

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Bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winner Garry Wills explores Thomas Jeffersons final and favorite achievement, the University of Virginia.

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Mystery cults are one of the most intriguing areas of Greek and Roman religion. This book describes and explains the major mystery cults of the ancient world, cult by cult, reconstructing the rituals and exploring their origins. It makes use of artistic and archaeological evidence, as well as ancient literature and epigraphy.

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This monumental volume presents world history from an original perspective that provides fresh insights with every colorful spread.

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From the dawn of civilization to the first decade of the 21st century, this straightforwardly written, superbly accessible reference distills the essence of world history into a single compact volume. Featuring more than 1,000 illustrations, its a book as vivid as it is definitive.

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Told by a master storyteller, PACIFIC 360 is a sweeping national narrative that looks for the first time at the Pacific War in its entirety, bringing together the story behind one of the most crucial times in Australian history.

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A single day: July 4, 1863, brought to a conclusion two of the most infamous battles of the Civil War. This book tells the story of these two pivotal battles.

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In the dead of night on 20 March 2003, Royal Navy Marines have been given the job of capturing the oil pipelines and pumping stations through which 90 per cent of Iraq's oil is exported. This title tells the story of courage, fortitude and the harsh realities of modern war, fought in the context of the turmoil of the Middle East.

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This attractively designed and colourfully illustrated book offers a brief overview of the history of Egyptian mummification. It describes over thirty Egyptian mummies, and also shows a range of coffins, masks and grave goods.

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A new title in the popular Pocket Dictionary series. A handy illustrated dictionary which will introduce the reader to the pharaohs - the great god-kings of ancient Egypt. It was these kings who built the pyramids, and other amazing monuments such as the temples and palaces of Thebes.

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This is the moving, powerful and surprising story of a group of Australian POWs who organise an Australian Rules Football competition under the worst conditions imaginable - inside Changi prison.

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This is the moving, powerful and compelling story of a group of Australian POWs who organise an Australian Rules Football competition under the worst conditions imaginable - inside Changi prison. Now part of the HACHETTE MILITARY COLLECTION.

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The Cyrus Cylinder is one of the most famous objects to have survived from the ancient world. The Cylinder was inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform on the orders of the Persian King Cyrus the Great (559ae'530BC) after he captured Babylon in 539BC.

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Drawing from Smiths own personal journals, this biography paints a rich and detailed portrait of one of Americas most intriguing founding fathers.

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The Last Days of Budapest tells the powerful story of one of the least-known but most important episodes of the Second World War: life and death in the Hungarian capital from autumn 1944 to early 1945, a gripping story of spies, fanaticism, genocide and military disaster.

(Hardback, ANZ Only)

The ANZAC experience through the eyes of the ordinary men that were there: raw authentic accounts from infantrymen not historians.