My Web site highlights three main areas of interest in my life:  This page centers around my my first book non-fiction book titled “Finding My Father’s War.” This story is about my father, his struggles and his horrific experiences as POW in Nazi Germany during World War II.

Please visit “Home Two” for my work as award winning photographer and a link to my other web site; conceptdesignlighting which serves as my main career as a global design consult and a leading expert with automotive lighting and advance technology integration.

"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. 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. Along with the text, he had scribbled some drawings to help him capture his true feelings. The diary also included a photo of Heinz, the principled Nazi guard who formed a close bond with Herbert and eased his cruel existence in the hellhole known as Stalag VIIA.

Finding his father's journal became the catalyst for Robert Miller to learn more about his father and about his father's war. He spent hours interviewing his mother, the only person who knew of her husband's nightmares and understood that he suffered from life-long post-traumatic stress disorder. Robert also traveled throughout Europe and America interviewing World War II survivors and their families and digging into archives. The final result of his three years of intensive research is this gripping and heartrending story that sheds needed 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.

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As the New York-born son of eastern European Jews who barely survived the Holocaust, Lev Raphael grew up in a world haunted by secrets and ghosts. Having spent years fleeing from his parents’ past, he decided to confront that past and, in the process, to come to grips with Germany, the country he blamed for the horrors visited on his parents and, indirectly, on himself. My Germany is part travelogue and part detective story, as Raphael sets out to trace what happened to his parents and their families during the war. Above all, it is a wholly enthralling, beautifully written story of healing and forgiveness, in which Raphael not only sheds his hatred and fear of Germany but comes to a deeper, richer understanding of his parents and Jewish heritage—and, above all, of himself

February 13, 2010 -   Borders of Canton - Book Signing. 2 - 4 pm. 

April 11, 2010 - Holocaust Memorial Center, Michigan - Lecture and presentations by

Robert H Miller, “Finding My Father’s War” and Lev Raphael, “My Germany”.  More details to follow very soon!  

(734)  255-0300

Now arriving in bookstores and libraries in the USA

Or purchase a signed copy directly from my website

Robert H Miller’s Veterans Day Interview with Frank Beckman

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