Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Thursday 25 October
12:45 PM - 1:15 PM
In the fight against the Japanese during World War II, the most disturbing events endured by the Australian soldiers occurred at Sandakan, in North Borneo.
Join Sydney-based historian Paul Ham, as he recounts their barbaric and long-forgotten ordeal – a horrifying story that has largely remained buried but which, he argues, demands to be told.
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Sometimes there’s nothing better than a good rant. Every Thursday, the Wheeler Centre hosts an old-fashioned Speakers’ Corner in the middle of the city, where writers and thinkers can have their say on the topics that won’t let them sleep at night.
Featuring some of our most compelling voices across just about every sector of human endeavour you can imagine, the themes dominating Lunchbox/Soapbox are proudly idiosyncratic. BYO lunch. Ideas provided.
Featuring
Paul Ham
Paul Ham is a Sydney-based historian. His previous books include Hiroshima Nagaski (October 2011), Vietnam: The Australian War (November 2007) and Kokoda (November 2004). Vietnam won the NSW Premier’s Prize for Australian History and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Prize for Non-Fiction (2008), a Walkley Award and two other state literary awards.
Kokoda was shortlisted for the Walkley Award for Non-Fiction and the NSW Premier’s Prize for Non-Fiction. Sandakan will be published in October 2012. Since 1998, Paul Ham has been the Australia correspondent for the London Sunday Times, covering politics, business and current affairs.
He has a Masters degree in economic history from the London School of Economics, and lives in Sydney with his wife, Marie, and son, Oliver.