moved to Southwold where he served as town councillor for 14 years before becoming mayor in 2002. He has also served as a Foreign Office national observer of elections in Russia, in 1993, 1995 and 1996, in the Ukraine in 1994 and in Kazakhstan in 1996. Writing career Miller collaborated on several books, including The Falklands Conflict and The Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff with Christopher Dobson and Ronald Payne, and On The Day We Almost Bombed Moscow with Christopher Dobson. Miller's Mikhail Gorbachev and the End of Soviet Power was published in 1993. His novel The Chamdo Raid is set in Tibet. His is the author of two local books: The Best of Southwold and Southwold in Old Photographs. His book Spunyarns about the wonderful world of a beach hut in Southwold, appeared in December 2012. All Them Cornfields and Ballet in the Evenings Published in May 2010 by Hodgson Press, All Them Cornfields and Ballet in the Evenings is a personal story about the vanished world of the USSR. For more than 40 years the USSR. was the centre of John Miller’s working life as a foreign correspondent. He went to the Soviet Union at the height of the East-West Cold War and some of the most prominent stories of the 20th century such as the Great Spy Game, the U-2 drama, the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred while he was reporting there. The book contains details of everyday life in the Soviet Union such as shortages, dealing with the KGB as well as with bedbugs and cockroaches, censorship, living in a Moscow flat with a rabbit called Floppy, drunkenness, dissidents and death. Personal life and death In July 2010, Miller's daughter Jane was awarded an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in recognition of her work on control and elimination of malaria in Tanzania for some 15 years. John Miller died in Southwold on 26 December 2020, at the age of 88. References Sources Campbell Doon. Magic Mistress. The Tagman Press. 2000. Page 278. Deedes. W.F. Dear Bill. Macmillan 1997. Page 266. Garland. Nicholas. Not Many Dead. Hutchinson 1990. Pages 7. Et al. Hastings, Max. Editor: An Inside Story of Newspapers. Macmillan 2002. Pages 98–99. Kron, Alexander. Novy Mir. February 1983. Pages 13–14. Lambert, Derek. Unquote. Arlington Books. 1981. Page 66. Purdy, Anthony. Burgess and Maclean. Secker and Warburg. 1963. Page 15. Roberts,