Cochrane, Peter

Historian Peter Cochrane is the author of the critically acclaimed companion volume to the ABC television series Australians at War (ABC Books, 2001) ; Simpson and the Donkey: The Making of a Legend (Melbourne University Press, 1992, to be revised 2014)) and Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy (Melbourne University Publishing, 2007), which won the inaugural Prime Minister's History Award and The Age Book of the Year Award. His most recent work is Governor Bligh and the Short Man: A Novella, published by Penguin in 2013.;