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THE SOUL

A History of the Human Mind

 

Penguin Random House

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In The Soul: A History of the Human Mind I embark on a journey that has never been attempted: to restore the idea of the soul to the human story and to show how belief in, and beliefs arising from, the soul/mind have animated and driven our history.

Almost everyone thinks they have one, but nobody knows what it is.

Writing The Soul 
changed my life; reading it may change yours.

Paul Ham book - The Soul

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 By Augustine's own confession, the future saint was a serial predator and sexual glutton. A whisper of conscience ran in the opposing direction, urging him to put his robe back on and choose chastity.
portrait of Paul Ham

BIOGRAPHY

Photo: Mark Friezer

Paul Ham

 

Paul Ham is a historian of conflict, international relations and ideas.

 

For most of my life as a writer, I’ve written about human conflict. I’ve interviewed hundreds of servicemen and women and their families and their memories of war.

I’ve listened to the civilian victims of atrocities and the survivors of holocausts.

I’ve seen people at their most compassionate, ordinary men and women enacting the most powerful expression of self-sacrifice: ‘Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.’

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'Ham's conclusions [of Passchendaele] are well founded and damning. The novelist Richard Aldington concluded that, "Somehow we must atone to the dead". In his own way, the prolific and talented Paul Ham is
doing just that.'

The Royal United Services Institute

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