Paul Ham is the author of 1914: The Year the World Ended (2013), Sandakan: The Untold Story of the Sandakan Death Marches (2012), Hiroshima Nagasaki (2011), Vietnam: The Australian War (2007) and Kokoda (2004). Vietnam won the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for Australian History and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Prize for Non-Fiction (2008). Kokoda was shortlisted for the Walkley Award for Non-Fiction and the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for Non-Fiction. Sandakan was shortlisted for the 2013 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for History. His most recent book, 1914, won the 2014 University of Queensland Non-Fiction Book Award. A former Sunday Times correspondent, with a Master’s degree in Economic History from the London School of Economics, Paul now devotes most of his time to writing history. He lives in Paris and Sydney with his family.