Edward G. Miller

Lieutenant Colonel, US Army (Ret.)



LTC Ray Fleig, US Army (Ret) (L) with LTC Ed Miller, US Army (Ret) in the Hurtgen Forest, December 2005. Ray led 1st Plt., Co. A, 707th Tank Battalion in 1944 and received a Silver Star for heroism. See link at right for "Tank Battle at Kesternich."

The Hurtgen Forest today

UTAH Beach, Normandy. "Nothing Less Than Full Victory " reviews the consequences of the fight beyond this beachhead.

Events

Ed will speak at Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Lexington, KY, in late 2011. Please check back in for the date/​time.

Ed spoke at the Boyle County Public Library on October 14, 2010 on the decisions leading to the disastrous Battle of the Hurtgen Forest

A rare photo - Infantrymen and tanks of the 3d Armored Division operating together under fire, Rhineland, 1944. Photo credit: US Army

Speaking:

Ed discussed the battle of the Hurtgen Forest with students at the Department of History, Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, WV on April 23, 2008. Dr. Mark Snell was the host.

Interviews:

Ed appeared on 'Capitol Conversations' with John Tegler (radio interview) on two dates in mid-2008 to discuss both the Hurtgen Forest and U.S. Army operations in WWII in general. Capitol Conversations airs an about 100 radio stations on the east coast. WVIE is a sister station to WCBM, AM 680. The topic is his latest book, 'Nothing Less Than Full Victory.' Mr. Tegler will schedule a follow-on interview with Ed for his first book, 'A Dark and Bloody Ground, the Hurtgen Forest and Roer River Dams.' Please contact WVIE for the air date.

Ed discussed both of his WWII books at the new Barnes & Noble Bookstore, Frederick, MD on the afternoon of December 2, 2007.

Ed discussed his books at the Frederick, Maryland Borders Book Store on November 12, 2007.

On October 12, 2006, Ed spoke to about 450 attendees at the Harold C. Deutsch WWII Round Table, sponsored by the Minnesota Historical Society, Historic Fort Snelling, MN. The topic was the Hurtgen Forest battles. Ed focused on the logistical underpennings to the outcome of this horrific battle and the impact of logistics on operational decision making.

Ed appeared on the April 23, 2006 episode of the Fox News Channel’s show, War Stories With Oliver North, Watch listings for the date of the next airing of Hell in the Hürtgen Forest. The DVD is available from the Fox News Channel store.

Selected Works

Military History
Nothing Less Than Full Victory
Available now from the US Naval Institute Press
A Dark and Bloody Ground--the Hürtgen Forest and Roer River Dams 1944-1945
Before the Battle of the Bulge, there was the Hürtgen Forest.
History/Comment
"Fighting Blind in Hurtgen Forest"
An overview of this brutal fight appears in the October 2011 issue of America in World War II magazine.
Magazine Articles
"Singling"
This article on the WWII tank battle at Singling, France, appears in the September 2011 issue of Armchair General Magazine.
"All the Wrong Reasons"
The chain of decisionmaking that led to the Army's most disastrous WWII campaign appeared in the Summer 2010 issue of World War II Quarterly.
Current Military Operations
"BFSB 101: A Brief Introduction to the Battlefield Surveillance Brigade" (Armor Magazine, Nov-Dec 2010)
Ed's latest work is as co-author of an overview of a new-type Army unit now deployed to combat in Afghanistan and Iraq