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Paul Ham is an Australian author, historian, journalist and publisher, who writes on the 20th century history of war, politics and diplomacy. He lives in Sydney and Paris.
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Paul Ham is an Australian author, historian, journalist and publisher, who writes on the 20th century history of war, politics and diplomacy. He lives in Sydney and Paris.
Between 1984 and 1998 Ham worked in London as a business and investment journalist – for the Financial Times Group and the Sunday Times (as its investment editor, 1994–1998). In 1992 he co-founded a financial newsletter publishing company, whose titles included 'Governance' and 'The Money Laundering Bulletin', which he sold in 1997. For part of that period Ham also worked part-time, as the editor of 'Amnesty', the magazine of the British headquarters of Amnesty International. On his return to Australia, in 1998, Ham was appointed the Australia correspondent for The London Sunday Times, a post he held for the next 15 years.
Between 2000 and 2003 he wrote his first history, Kokoda [1] – the story of the first land defeat of the Japanese in the Second World War; followed by Vietnam: The Australian War – a history of Australia's 15-year military involvement in Vietnam. Vietnam won the NSW Premier's Prize for Australian history, and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Prize for Non-Fiction; both Vietnam and Kokoda were shortlisted for the Walkley Award for Non-Fiction. His next book, Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath , [2] a controversial history of the atomic bomb, was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Prize for History and published in the United States, Britain and Australia to critical acclaim. A 6-part television series based on 'Hiroshima Nagasaki' is being made by London-based Thoroughbred Studios.[ citation needed ]
In 2010 Ham co-wrote and presented the documentary, All the Way, produced by November Films in conjunction with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), based on his history of the Vietnam War. In 2008 he was involved in the production of a documentary based on Kokoda, produced by Pericles Films, the ABC and Screen Australia. In 2012 Ham set up an electronic publishing business called Hampress, which published short ebooks and classic audiobooks.
In 2013 Ham published 1914: The Year the World Ended , in Britain and Australia, which won the Queensland Literary Award for Non-Fiction in 2014. His book Sandakan: The Untold Story of the Sandakan Death Marches , released the previous year, was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards. In 2016-17 Penguin Random House published his most recent books, Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth and Young Hitler in Australia and Britain. Ham was a regular contributor to Amazon's Kindle Single platform, having published 1913 , The Target Committee and, with the psychotherapist Bernie Brown, Honey, We Forgot the Kids, an examination of the state of families and childcare in the West.
Ham teaches narrative history at Sciences Po in France and has a master's degree in Economic History from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a Bachelor of Arts (Communications) degree from Charles Sturt University and attended The Scots College, Sydney. In his spare time, Ham organises an annual poetry recital, The Big Fat Poetry Pig-Out, the proceeds of which go to selected charities.
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George Anthony Weller was an American novelist, playwright, and journalist for The New York Times and Chicago Daily News. He won a 1943 Pulitzer Prize as a Daily News war correspondent.
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Dianne Wolfer is an Australian children's author who lives on the south coast of Western Australia. Her latest title, ‘Munjed Al Muderis - From Refugee to Surgical Inventor’ is Book Three of Aussie STEM Stars by Wild Dingo Press.
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This is a Bibliography of World War II battles and campaigns in East Asia, South East Asia, India and the Pacific. It aims to include the major theaters, campaigns and battles of the Asia-Pacific Theater of World War II. It is part of Wikipedia's larger effort to document the Bibliography of World War II. Its counterpart for the European, North African and Middle Eastern theater is the Bibliography of World War II battles and campaigns in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
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