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Paul Ham
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Paul Ham is the author of Hiroshima Nagasaki (2011), Vietnam: The Australian War (2007) and Kokoda (2004). Vietnam won the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for Australian History and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Prize for Non-Fiction (2008). Kokoda was shortlisted for the Walkley Award for Non-Fiction and the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for Non-Fiction.

Sandakan: The Untold Story of the Sandakan Death Marches, was published in 2012 and was shortlisted for the 2013 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for History.
His last book was 1914: The Year The World Ended.
A former Sunday Times correspondent, with a Master’s degree in Economic History from the London School of Economics, Paul now devotes most of his time to writing history. He lives in Paris and Sydney with his family.

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Paul Ham - The Soul

Paul Ham discusses his upcoming book, The Soul - https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-soul-9780143781363 The Soul is a history of the human mind, from the earliest expression of self-consciousness to its unshakeable beliefs in the great religions and political systems.

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A guide to the reformation

New Jerusalem author Paul Ham outlines the short life and terrible death of Christendom's most defiant sect.

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The Battle of Langemarck: an Irish tragedy.

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September 1917

'Bite and hold’: the grinding tactics of Field Marshal Haig.

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12th October 1917

The opening stages of the First Battle of Passchendaele.