You are invited to meet Paul Ham when he discusses his new book Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth with historian and author, Jonathan King.

Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. The photographs of this four-month battle, fought from July to November 1917,  show the worst year of the war: blackened tree stumps rising out of a field of mud, corpses of men and horses drowned in shell holes, terrified soldiers huddled in trenches awaiting the whistle.

What happened at Passchendaele was the expression of the 'wearing-down war', the war of pure attrition at its most spectacular and ferocious.

Paul Ham’s Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth shows how ordinary men on both sides endured this constant state of siege, with a very real awareness that they were being gradually, deliberately, wiped out.

The book tells the story of 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. 

Join us when Paul Ham discusses Passchendaele with Jonathan King at 6.30pm, on Thursday October 27th, 2016.

Bookings are essential and can be made online by following this link or by phone on 9979 2112.

Cost is $ 12.00, $ 5.00 of which will be credited against any purchases made on the evening.

About the author:

Paul Ham is the author of Hiroshima Nagasaki (2011), Vietnam (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: The Untold Story of the Sandakan Death Marches, was published in 2012 and was shortlisted for the 2013 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for History. His last book was 1914: The Year The World Ended. 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.

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