Jeff Steel is a child of World War II. Shocked at the sight of bombed-out London as a child, he has grappled ever since with the simple but profound question 'what happened'. His deep interest in the war has led to many heart-rending interviews with those who took part. He has undertaken endless study and travel. He has visited World War II sites from Churchill's War Rooms in London to Pearl Harbour via Dresden and the Burma Railway. His first book No Heil Hitler as ghost writer, told the compelling story a young boy's Odyssey through the horrors of Nazi-occupied Poland. It won the Philpott Prize for a (then) unpublished manuscript. He has three other World War II non-fiction titles published with Big Sky Publishing.
Linda Nash and her parents arrived in Melbourne in 1964. Growing up in, Gloucester, England, she knew her father had been a commando in World War II, yet he never spoke of it. Linda was intrigued by an old newspaper cutting depicting her father as the first Territorial (reserve) soldier to receive the Military Medal. She always suspected there was more to her Dad’s war hero past … Jeff Steel proved her right.