![]() ![]() Paul is the founding director of Hampress, an independent ebook publisher, and a regular contributor to Kindle Single, Amazon's new 'short book' publishing platform, for which he has written '1913: The Eve of War' and 'Young Hitler', co-written 'Honey, We Forgot the Kids', and published several titles by other authors. Paul has co-written two ABC documentaries based on his work: 'Kokoda' (2010), a 2-part series on the defeat of the Japanese army in Papua in 1942 (shortlisted for the New York Documentary prize) and 'All the Way' (2012), about Australia's difficult alliance with America during the Vietnam War, which he also narrated and presented (it won the UN's Media Peace prize). His books have been published to critical acclaim in Australia, Britain and the United States, and 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) 'Vietnam: The Australian War' and 'Kokoda' (both published by HarperCollins, 20). He teaches narrative non-fiction at SciencesPo in Reims and English at l'École de guerre in Paris. Born and raised in Sydney, Paul has spent his working life in London, Sydney and Paris. PAUL HAM is a historian specialising in 20th century conflict, war and politics. ![]() Hiroshima Nagasaki challenges this deep-set perception, revealing that the atomic bombings were the final crippling blow to the Japanese in a stratgic air war waged primarily against civilians. Even today, most people believe they ended the Pacific War and saved millions of American and Japanese lives. Through their harrowing personal testimonies, we are reminded that these were ordinary people, given no warning and no chance to escape the horror.Īmerican leaders claimed that the bombings were 'our least abhorrent choice' and fell strictly on 'military targets'. Hiroshima Nagasaki tells the story of the tragedy through the eyes of the survivors, from the twelve-year-olds forced to work in war factories to the wives and children who faced it alone. Hundreds of thousands more succumbed to their horrific injuries, or slowly perished of radiation-related sickness. In one of the defining moments of the twentieth century, more than 100,000 people were killed instantly by two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by US Air Force B29s. ![]() The first narrative history of the nuclear attack told from both the Japanese and American viewpoints. ![]()
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