Paul Ham

Paul Ham (Sydney, 1960) is a historian specializing in 20th-century conflicts, wars, and politics. Raised in Australia, Paul has lived and worked in London, Sydney, and Paris. His books, which have received positive reviews and accolades in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, include: "Hiroshima Nagasaki: A Controversial New History of the Atomic Bombings" (HarperCollins, Australia, 2010, Penguin Random House, UK, 2011, Pan Macmillan, USA, 2014-15), "1914: The Year the World Ended" (Penguin Random House, 2013), "Sandakan" (Penguin Random House, 2011), and "Vietnam: The Australian War" (HarperCollins, 2007 and 2004). He was also one of the writers for two ABC documentaries based on his work: "Kokoda" (2010), a two-part series on the defeat of the Japanese army in Papua in 1942 (finalist for the New York Documentary Prize), and "All the Way" (2012), about Australia's challenging alliance with America during the Vietnam War, in which he also served as narrator and presenter (the documentary won the UN Media Peace Award). He is the founder and director of Hampress, an independent e-book publishing house, and regularly contributes to Kindle Single, Amazon's new publishing platform for short-form books, for which he wrote "1913: The Eve of War" and "Young Hitler," co-authored "Honey, We Forgot the Kids," and published several titles by other authors. A former correspondent for "The Sunday Times" in Australia (1998-2012), Paul holds a master's degree in Economic History from the London School of Economics. He lives in Sydney and Paris and occasionally dedicates some time to organizing the Big Fat Poetry Pig-Out, an annual poetry recital for charity.