D-Days in the Pacific

“Miller notes with unusual balance the role that the casualties of Iwo Jima and Okinawa played in the decision to drop the A-bomb, by creating expectations of even bloodier battles in the course of an invasion.  The book also includes annotation and a bibliography valuable for further reading and a good selection of 80 black and white illustrations and ten maps… The perfect introduction to the Pacific War.”
- Publisher's Weekly

“Miller’s very readable account of the offensives in the Pacific, from the turning of the tide at Guadalcanal to VJ-day, portrays a series of amphibious landings, many of them bloodily and tenaciously contested.  He skillfully uses official records and the remembrances of frontline survivors to depict the savagery and stresses of the close-quarters combat usually encountered in amphibious warfare… Excellent narrative history and first-class illustrations eventuate in superior historiography.”
- Booklist

“The author skillfully includes the eyewitness accounts of numerous leathernecks, GIs, war correspondents and enemy combatants who survived to tell the tale.  Their collective testimonies are gripping, brutal and particularly heart-wrenching.  Taken together, their shared struggle was, at once, grand and horribly gruesome… This single volume, “D-Days in the Pacific,” will make an exceptional addition to any military history library and is a worthy companion to the History Channel’s TV series.  Donald Miller has created a valuable historical document and has succeeded in embracing the many-sided Pacific war.”
- Robert B. Loring

The Story of World War II

Miller has received critical acclaim for The Story of World War II, a revised, expanded, and updated version of Henry Steele Commager's classic book, published in November 2001 by Simon & Schuster/Lou Reda.

“A major publishing event.  Donald Miller’s additions to the original account are outstanding, and the total effect is one few readers will ever forget.”
- David McCullough, author of John Adams

“With his superb narrative flair, masterful eye for detail, and perfect blend of colorful anecdote with historical context, Donald Miller has given vibrant new life to a valued work.  This… account of World War II is likely to remain a classic for generations to come.”
- Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of No Ordinary Time

“This is a stunning achievement.  Weaving extraordinary anecdotes and firsthand accounts of combat into the epic drama of World War II, Donald L. Miller has crafted a suspenseful and riveting retelling of perhaps the greatest story in human history.”
- Andrew Carroll, editor of War Letters

“This combination of popular history and soldier testimony is a unique and wonderfully successful event.  Put together with skill and sensitivity, it is a chronicle of ruin and agony, both a tribute and a warning.  Enthusiastically recommended.”
- Paul Fussell, author of Wartime and Doing Battle

“This is the book that deserves to be titled The Story of World War II…. If you seek the book that best conveys the ‘you are there’ experience of history’s greatest conflict, you hold that book in your hands.”
- James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers

“Beautifully done.  Donald Miller has made combat, wherever it occurred in World War II, alive and immediate.”
- Martin Blumenson, author of Patton

City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America

Miller's City of the Century won a Great Lakes Book Award and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and for the Urban History Award.

“With City of the Century, Miller has written what will be judged as the great Chicago history.”
- John Barron, Chicago Sun-Times

“A glorious anthem to a tumultuous city, this synthesis of industrial, social, and cultural history captures the raw, robust spirit of Chicago on every page….Big, colorful, engrossing.”
- Publishers Weekly

“In this spirited telling of the Chicago phenomenon, Donald Miller, one of our ablest historians, takes us to the heart of what made America tick… Brims with life, with people, surprise, and with stories – and stories within stories – all worth telling.”
- David McCullough, author of John Adams

“Sweeping and beautifully written.”
- Morris Dickstein, The Washington Post

“A wonderfully readable account of Chicago’s early history.”
- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Lewis Mumford, A Life

"With this large, large-spirited life of Lewis Mumford, Donald L. Miller takes his place in the first rank of contemporary American biographers."
- David McCullough, author of John Adams

- A sympathetic, carefully researched, intimate biography of one of this century's most important American intellectuals. Mumford's private life is discussed in detail, not for lurid effect, nor even merely to help us better understand one man's moral and psychological struggles, but to illuminate some very fundamental conditions of life in our century."
- Robert A.M. Stern

"Miller neatly weaves together Mumford's public career and his private life, making us feel, as every good biographer must, how utterly dependent each is upon the other."
- Paul Goldberger, The Atlantic Monthly

"This is a remarkably candid, informed account of a protean thinker."
- Justin Kaplan, author of Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography

The Lewis Mumford Reader

"This book serves as an introduction to one of the most celebrated and disciplined minds of the twentieth century... This new book is a treasure-house for all those who think that the human mind can make a difference in the human situation."
- Norman Cousins

"Lewis Mumford has had a deeper and more lasting impact on the thinking of his generation than almost any other figure in public life. That impact was not only intellectual, but moral... I am delighted with the collection."
- Henry Steele Commager

The Kingdom of Coal: Work, Enterprise, and Ethnic Communities in the Mine Fields

The Kingdom of Coal: Work, Enterprise, and Ethnic Communities in the Mine Fields, was nominated for several prizes, including the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, the Francis Parkman Prize, and the Bancroft Prize.

“Meticulously researched….The first comprehensive history of the industry and the culture that it spawned.  A worthy effort.”
- Kirkus Reviews

“A superb study of anthracite history; [it] deserves to be widely read.”
- Anthony Wallace