Synopses & Reviews
This is the remarkable story of my father, Herbert Henry Miller, who was drafted into the army in August 1942.” So begins this book about an ordinary man thrust into extraordinary circumstances during World War II. The writer is Herbert Millers son, Robert, who was amazed to discover his fathers Red Cross war diary at the back of a drawer in the weeks following his 1994 death. The diary was crammed full of his dreams for survival and of the death and destruction he had witnessed as a soldier and a POW. Finding his fathers journal became the catalyst for Robert Miller to learn more about his father and his fathers war. He spent hours interviewing his mother, the only person who knew of her husbands nightmares and understood that he suffered from life-long posttraumatic stress disorder. Robert also traveled throughout Europe and America interviewing World War II survivors and their families and digging into archives.
Synopsis
Finding My Father's War Revelations from the Red Cross Diary of an American POW in Nazi Germany "This is the remarkable story of my father, Herbert Henry Miller, who was drafted into the army in August 1942." So begins this book about an ordinary man thrust into extraordinary circumstances during World War II. The writer is Herbert Miller's son, Robert, who was amazed to discover his father's Red Cross war diary at the back of a drawer in the weeks following his 1994 death. The diary had been created by the YMCA and distributed through the Red Cross to all American POWs as they were entering prisoner of war camps. Many soldiers, understandably, threw them away. But Herbert Miller chose to keep his. In this well-researched book, Robert Miller sheds light on issues that remain at the forefront of our public discourse today: the torture and treatment of POWS and the high psychological cost to individual soldiers of going to war.
About the Author
Robert H. Miller spent three years researching and writing the story of his fathers experiences as a POW in World War II. Soon to be published in its second edition, the well-received book Hidden Hell is the story of an American soldier who greatly suffered as a POW in Nazi Germany. For the last sixteen years, Miller has worked in advanced LED lighting and technology design centered on the global auto market. He travels extensively in Europe and in the emerging auto markets of China, India, and Brazil. In August 2010, Miller accepted the newly created position of Executive Director of the Patton Foundation. In this role Miller will oversee the foundations efforts in America to put into practice General George Pattons concerns for the welfare of American soldiers and their families. Miller has been a professional photographer for thirty-six years and has won several international awards.