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"""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 discovered his father's Red Cross war diary at the back of a drawer in the weeks following his 1994 death. Created by the YMCA, the diaries were distributed through the Red Cross to all American POWs as they entered prisoner of war camps. Herbert Miller's 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 father's diary became the catalyst for Robert Miller to learn more about his father's war. The result is this gripping 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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Robert H. Miller spent three years researching and writing the story of his father's experiences as a POW in World War II. An automotive lighting and advanced technology designer for the past fifteen years, Miller travels to Europe frequently where he has been under exclusive contract to 3M USA and Germany since 2006. He has taken advantage of his time in Europe to research this book. Miller has been a professional photographer for thirty-five years and is the winner of several international awards. He lives in Canton, Michigan, with his wife, Colleen, and their fifteen-year-old son, Patrick. He and Colleen also have four grown children.

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