Author and journalist Paul Ham has been the Australia correspondent of the Sunday Times (UK). He has also written books on Australia's war history including Vietnam: The Australian War, Kokoda and Hiroshima Nagasaki.
Hiroshima Nagasaki was shortlisted for the 2011 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Nonfiction, the 2012 the Age Book of the Year Award, Nonfiction and the 2012 New South Wales Premier's History Awards, General History Prize.
Ham also edited and wrote the introduction to Yoko's Diary: The Life of a Young Girl in Hiroshima During WWII. (2013: ABC Books), which was shortlisted for the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year awards in 2014.
Ham's 1914: The Year the World Ended won the Non-Fiction Book Award at the 2014 Queensland Literary Awards. His Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth won the 2018 Douglas Stewart Award (NSW Premier's Literary Awards).
