Anton Gill worked for the English Stage Company, the Arts Council of Great Britain, and the BBC before becoming a full-time writer in 1984. He has written more than twenty books, mainly in the field of contemporary history, including "The Journey Back from Hell: Conversations with Concentration Camp Survivors "(winner of the H. H. Wingate Award), "A Dance Between Flames: Berlin Between the Wars, " and "An Honourable Defeat: A History of the German Resistance to Hitler."