Books / Films
I've done three books, one documentary film, and, hopefully, counting! Here they are in reverse chronological order:
MISFIRE: The Sarajevo Assassination and the Winding Road to World War I
“Misfire is without doubt a tremendously important addition to the 1914 literature. It is also, it has to be said, a stylishly written, absolutely entrancing work. In it, Miller-Melamed combines his agnosticism with massive erudition to demonstrate how the explanatory constructs in the narratives about the Sarajevo assassination in fact turn out to be, on closer inspection, no more than 'neat explanatory fiction'. This makes his book uniquely original in a sea of studies detailing the road to war....Misfire is certainly not just yet another account of how the war began. It is much, much more appealing and engaging than that: in showing how history can be so easily misconstrued and then widely transmitted, it is a striking reminder, and something of a reprimand, about how we end up processing the past through a mythological prism.”
— John Zametica, Balcanica: Annual of the Institute for Balkan Studies
EMBERS OF EMPIRE
Continuity and Rupture in the Habsburg Successor States after 1918
“Overall, this is an excellent text with a lot of interesting and novel observations on the experiences of people in the successor states of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Our tendency in the past has been to wall off our studies along contemporary national boundaries, and the editors of this book have illustrated how these new nation-states both related to one another and struggled to create independent identities. Scholars of the late years of the empire and the transitions after its dissolution will undoubtedly find it a valuable resource, and I would not limit my recommendation just to historians. Anyone who studies Central European culture in the first half of the twentieth century may find something useful in this book.”
— Journal of Austrian Studies
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“A powerful study of the tragic choices facing the French antiwar movement in the early twentieth century. Miller helps us see how, by 1914, the only way to fight war was to join it. This outcome, he demonstrates persuasively, was neither a betrayal of prior convictions nor a momentary response to a war crisis, the speed of which surprised all observers.”
— Jay Winter, Yale University
I was the film’s executive producer, responsible for fundraising, post-production work, and hiring the narrator (the journalist Mike Wallace) for this film on the bombing of Auschwitz controversy.
“The world knew and kept silent…Nothing was done to stop or delay the process. Not one bomb was dropped on the railway tracks to the death camps.”
— Elie Wiesel
