Joan Beaumont is an internationally recognised historian of Australia in the two world wars, Australian defence and foreign policy, the history of prisoners of war, and the memory and heritage of war. Her publications include the critically acclaimed Broken Nation: Australians and the Great War, joint winner of the 2014 Prime Minister's Literary Award (Australian History), the 2014 NSW Premier's Prize (Australian History), the 2014 Queensland Literary Award for History and the Australian Society of Authors’ 2015 Asher Award; and shortlisted for the 2014 WA Premier’s Prize (non-fiction) and the 2014 Council for the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Prize for a Book. She is co-editor of Serving Our Country: Indigenous Australians, war, defence and citizenship and Gull Force: Australian POWs on Ambon and Hainan, 1941–45.