Paul Ham

Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front....

Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth: 1914 did....

The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 instantly, mostly women, children and the elderly...

Christmas 1913: In Britain, people are debating a new dance called ‘the tango’....

Paul Ham recounts both the Australian and Japanese perspectives of the events on the hellish Papuan jungle trail....

The definitive account of Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War, by best-selling author of Kokoda....

This is the story of the three-year ordeal of the Sandakan prisoners of war - a barely known episode of unimaginable horror....

Everyone thinks they have one, but nobody knows what it is. For thousands of years the soul was an 'organ', an entity, something that was part of all of us, that survived the death of the body and ventured to the underworld, or to heaven or hell. The soul could be saved, condemned, tortured...

By looking deeply into the Führer's childhood, war experiences, and early political career, this rigorous narrative seeks to answer this question: How did the early, defining years of Hitler’s life affect his rise to power? Find out....

How did America choose the targets for the atomic bomb? What made Hiroshima preferable over Kyoto or Tokyo? Find out....

The intervening century, the most violent in human history, has not disarmed these pictures of their power to shock....

If we judge the West by the state of its families, the West is sick. Millions of children barely see their parents, or for only a few minutes a day. One in two families break down....