Peter Thompson

Australian-born Peter Thompson was a Fleet Street journalist for twenty years. Since becoming a fulltime author in 1991, he has written twenty-one books on war, royalty and big business. He won the Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature with Robert Macklin for The Big Fella: The Rise and Rise of BHP Billiton (Random House 2009). His works include Pacific Fury, a best-selling one-volume history of the Pacific War, The Battle for Singapore 1942 and The Quest for Freedom, a biography of Alexander Kerensky and the Russian Revolution.