Paul Ham Audio Books

By looking deeply into the Fuhrer'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?

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.

Nobody is more disturbed, said President Truman, three days after the destruction of Nagasaki in 1945, "over the use of the atomic bombs than I am, but I was greatly disturbed over the unwarranted attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor and their murder of our prisoners of war.

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

From Paul Ham, winner of the NSW Premier's Prize for Australian History, comes the story of ordinary men in the grip of a political and military power struggle that determined their fate and has foreshadowed the destiny of the world for a century.

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

If we judge the West by the state of its families, the West is sick.

How did America choose the targets for the atomic bomb? What made Hiroshima preferable over Kyoto or Tokyo? Critical to the mission to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a series of meetings set up in mid-1945 and comprising America's most powerful military, political and scientific chiefs.