Edward G. Miller
Lieutenant Colonel, US Army (Ret.)
Leadership Historian / Consultant

Singling
To be published in 2009 in Armchair General magazine, this article describes intense close combat between troops of the 4th Armored Division's Task Force Abrams and German panzergrenadiers for control of a key town in eastern France in December 1944.

Nothing Less Than Full Victory
Ed's latest book is a study of organizational transformation. The topic is how the US Army changed from an impotent constabularly to a global force for combat against the Germans during World War II. A set of detailed and exciting small unit action studies back up his contention that materiel abundance does not guarantee success unless effective leadership is on board and trained. The US Army did not simply overwhelm a weakened and nearly beaten German army. GIs and their leaders faced many obstacles and the odds were often against them as they prevailed over one of the best armies in history.

A Dark and Bloody Ground--the Hürtgen Forest and Roer River Dams 1944-1945
Winner of the 1997 Forrest C. Pogue Prize from the Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans as the best book on the history of the U.S. Army, and selection of the Military Book Club, this is a standard work on the army’s WWII experience in Europe.

"Tank Battle at Kesternich," with David T. Zabecki, World War II, November 2000
In their first combat action, troops of the 707th Tank Battalion, with soldiers of the 893d Tank Destroyer Battalion, stood between veteran German tankers and hard-bitten infantrymen, and the exhausted and out-numbered GIs of the 28th Infantry Division. These were the climactic hours of the battle for Schmidt, Germany.

"Desperate Hours at Kesternich," World War II, November 1996