18th Division (Japanese) 267
18th Infantry Division (German) 410
18th Leningrad Volunteer Division 157
XIX Corps (French) 312
XIX Panzer Corps 48, 56
19th Combat Engineer Battalion (United States) 310
19th Indian Division 567
19th Panzer Division 419, 424
20th Division (Commonwealth) 270
20th Indian Division 571
21st Army Group (Allied) 467, 468, 497, 498, 499, 506, 513
21st Panzer Division 123, 127, 133, 293, 294, 296, 298, 303, 312, 476
23rd Division (Commonwealth) 270, 273
23rd Marine Air Group (United States) 258
XXIV Corps (United States) 569
XXIV Panzer Corps 169
24th Panzer Division 315, 332, 344
26th Armoured Brigade (British) 311
26th Panzer Division 396
28th Infantry Division (United States) 504, 505
29th Infantry Division (United States) 474, 475–6
XXX Corps (British) 287, 290, 291, 296, 467, 502
31st Division (Japanese) 269, 270
XXXIII Indian Corps 272, 567
33rd Division (Japanese) 269, 270
34th Division (United States; ‘Red Bulls’) 313, 389–90, 401
36th Division (United States) 385–6, 387, 401
37th Guards Infantry Division (Russian) 322, 331
38th Division (Japanese) 201
39th Guards Infantry Division (Russian) 328
IV Indian Corps 567
XLI Panzer Corps 56
42nd Guards Regiment (Russian) 330
44th Division (Russian) 31, 32
44th (Home Counties) Division 290, 296
45th Division (United States) 401
46th Division (British) 387
XLVII Panzer Corps 420, 506
XLVIII Panzer Corps 415, 421
48th Panzer Division 522–3
IL Mountain Corps (German) 164
50th Division (British) 59, 290, 296
51st Highland Division (British) 290, 291, 294, 296
LII Army Corps (German) 417
52nd Lowland Division 500
53rd Division (Japanese) 267
LVI Panzer Corps 410
56th Division (United States) 387
58th Infantry Regiment (Japanese) 270, 273
71st Infantry Division (German) 324
75th Division (Russian) 33
77th Indian Brigade see Chindits
79th Armoured Division (British) 475
82nd Airborne Division (United States) 380, 467, 471, 501–2
84th Armoured Brigade (Russian) 331
87th Infantry Division (German) 72
90th Light Division (German) 123, 294
95th Rifle Division (Russian) 331
99th Infantry Division (United States) 505
101st Airborne Division (United States) 467, 471, 473, 501–2, 506
106th Infantry Division (United States) 504, 505
116th Infantry Division (United States) 475–6
117th Jäger Division 127
123rd Division (Russian) 34
138th Red Banner Rifle Division 329
139th Division (Russian) 33
163rd Division (Russian) 31, 32
164th (Saxon) Light Division 289, 294
169th Mountain Division (German) 39
221st Aviation Corps (Russian) 330
284th Siberian Division 326
295th Infantry Division (German) 324
308th Infantry Division (Russian) 328, 331
310th Infantry Regiment (United States) 506
352nd Infantry Division (German) 474
509th Composite Group (United States) 575
709th Division (German) 473
716th Infantry Division (German) 474
Aachen 503
Aalborg 41
Abbeville 52, 57
Abdication crisis (1936) 46
Abetz, Otto 77, 79
Abwehr (German intelligence organization): and Allied Normandy landings 463, 464, 470;
and Enigma code 350, 369;
in France 77, 83;
and invasion of Poland 16;
and invasion of USSR 163;
and North African campaigns 305
Abyssinia see Ethiopia
Acasta, HMS 43
Acheson, Dean 187
Achilles, HMS 37
Ack-Ack (anti-aircraft fire) 103
Action Française 76
Addis Ababa 121
Aden, Gulf of 121, 288
Admiral Graf Spee (battleship) 37, 353, 358
Admiral Hipper (cruiser) 40, 358
Admiral Scheer (battleship) 353, 356, 358
Admiralty (British) 22, 36, 39, 40–41, 41–2, 45, 349, 357, 358–9, 367, 380
Admiralty (Japanese) 276
Admiralty (German) 358–9
Admiralty Islands 210
aerial photo-reconnaissance 348, 416, 433
Afrika Korps 123, 127, 131, 132–5, 283, 288, 293, 299–301, 310–11, 588, 607
Agheila, El 122, 127, 133
Agrarian Reform Act (Germany; 1942) 582
Agreement, Operation 286
Agri river 383
Ahlwardt, Hermann 220
Air Ministry (British) 95, 97, 357, 437
Air Raid Precautions (ARP) 102, 103, 111
aircraft carriers: American 189, 215, 251–2, 252–3, 256, 258, 565; British 36, 37, 40, 43, 44, 126, 191, 362;
Japanese 189, 201, 251–2, 255–6, 565, 566
aircraft production: British 70, 92, 94, 97, 98; German 92, 289–90, 446–7, 448, 527–8, 586;
United States 194, 198, 214–15, 289, 445, 606
Aisne river 51, 61, 70
Aitken, Wing Commander (Sir) Max 95
Ajax, HMS 37
Akagi (aircraft carrier) 190, 191, 255
Akyab 260, 269, 567
Alam el Halfa, battle of (1942) 284, 286, 289
Alamein, El: first battle of (July 1942) 134–5, 281; second battle of (October–November 1942) 119, 135, 284, 285, 287–301, 343, 351, 434, 593, 600, 603
Alban Hills 394, 396, 400
Albania 123, 124, 125, 239
Albert Canal 55
Albert Line 403
Aleutian Islands 252, 253, 256
Alexander I, Emperor of Russia 562
Alexander I, King of Yugoslavia 56
Alexander, Field Marshal Sir Harold (later 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis): character 305;
at Dunkirk evacuation 68;
Italian campaign 376, 383, 388, 393, 395–6, 398, 400–403, 404;
and Japanese invasion of Burma 211–12;
North African campaigns 135, 281, 286, 292, 312, 313, 314;
and peace negotiations 546
Alexander, Hugh 349
Alexandria 40, 126, 132, 285, 292, 351, 588
Algeria 77, 92, 301, 308, 385
Algiers 306, 307, 308, 309, 488
Ali, General Rashid 131
Allen, Louis 272–3
Allenby, General Edmund, 1st Viscount 120
Alsace-Lorraine 44, 83, 483, 595
Altmark incident 38
‘Aluminium Trail’ 212
Alupka 454
America First movement 194
Amerika (Hitler’s special train) 27
Amiens 247
Åndalsnes 41–2
Anders, General Władysław 400, 417, 536
Anderson, Sir John (later 1st Viscount Waverley) 111
Anderson, Lieutenant-General (Sir) Kenneth 307, 308, 312, 313
Andropov, Yuri 563
Angers 26
Anglo-German Naval Agreement (1935) 9
Angriffskrieg (offensive war) 6
Anielewicz, Mordechai 244
Anschluss 6, 7
anthrax 275
Anti-Comintern Pact (1936) 5
anti-Semitism 220–21, 226, 250, 607–8
Antonescu, Marshal Anton 521
Antonov, Alexei 454
Antwerp 53, 473, 498, 499–500, 503, 504, 518, 595
Anvil, Operation 469, 491, 499, 606
Anziate 398
Anzio; battle of (1944) 384, 393–403, 406, 421, 461, 591; Commonwealth military cemetery 406, 579
Aoki, Captain Taijiro 255
Aosta, Amedeo, 3rd Duke of 121
Apennines 382, 403
appeasement 10, 38
Aprilia 394
Arado 234 (bomber) 447
Arakan 170, 260, 567
Archangel 151, 315, 364, 365
Arctic convoys 355, 364–6, 434
Ardennes 49, 52, 56, 410, 498, 499
Ardennes Offensive (1944–5) 404, 492, 501, 503–10, 520, 540, 591, 595–6; see also Bulge, battle of the
Ardent, HMS 43
Arena, General Francesco 296
Arezzo 403
Argentina 221
Argus, HMS 364
Ariete Division 288, 296
Ariizumi, Commander Tatsunosuke 276
Arizona, USS 192
Ark Royal, HMS 37, 40, 363
Armenia 43, 164
Armia Krajowa (Polish Home Army) 245, 536
Army Groups (German): A 49, 52, 56, 60, 70, 316, 317–18, 319, 337, 338, 341, 410, 542; B 48, 55, 58, 60, 316, 335, 377, 471–2, 501, 514, 539, 540;
C 49, 52;
F 540–41;
Centre 152, 153, 157–8, 165–6, 169, 171, 180, 181, 316, 391, 411, 426, 491, 532–6, 542, 548, 549;
Don 338, 410;
Kurland 544, 548, 549;
North 18, 21, 152, 153, 171, 528, 530, 533, 541, 548, 549, 595;
North Ukraine 530, 534, 539;
South 18, 21, 153–4, 168, 175, 316, 410, 411, 422, 523, 528, 530, 533, 540, 544, 549, 588;
South Ukraine 531, 539;
South-west 404;
Vistula 554
Arnhem 502, 520, 538, 540, 603
Arnim, General Hans-Jürgen von 314, 492
Arno Line 403
Arno river 403–4
Arnold, General Henry H. ‘Hap’ 208, 449–50
ARP (Air Raid Precautions) 102, 103, 111
Arras 59, 61
Arromanches 477, 485–6
Aryans 19, 76, 140, 165, 220, 243, 365, 521, 547, 559, 579
Asdic (echo-sounding device) 35, 366
Assam 212
Assam Rifles 271
Astoria, USS 256, 258
Astrakhan 315, 317, 588
Athenia, SS 35
Athens 125, 363
Atkinson, Rick 308
Atlantic, battle of the 115–16, 351–2, 355–64, 367–74, 602; Allied shipping losses 37, 357, 358, 359–60, 368, 370, 372;
Battle of the Atlantic Committee 360;
code-breaking 349, 351, 357, 363, 367–9, 606;
U-boat campaigns 35–6, 37–8, 130, 346, 352, 354, 357–8, 359–60, 368, 369–72, 373–4
Atlantic Charter 130–31, 383
Atlantic Wall 462
atomic and nuclear weapons 117, 429, 550, 565, 566, 571, 573–7, 598, 608
Attlee, Clement (later 1st Earl Attlee) 69
Attu island 256
Aubrey, Sergeant Tony 263
Auchinleck, General Sir Claude: North African campaigns 129, 131–2, 134–5, 281, 283, 287;
Norway campaign 44
Auftragstaktik (mission-oriented leadership) 54
Augusta, USS 129
Aung San, U 117, 211
Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp: construction of 236; deportations to 78, 82, 228, 236, 244, 246;
gas chambers 227–8, 228–32, 234, 236, 247, 495;
Himmler visits 241;
liberation of 245;
life in 237–8;
operation of 228–32, 234–6, 245, 582;
question of potential Allied bombing of 245–8
Australia: Japanese attacks on 201; Japanese threat to 188, 205, 210, 252;
Jewish emigration to 221;
navy 565;
relations with Britain 210;
servicemen in Allied forces 107, 125, 206, 300, 454, 477;
7th Australian Division 127–8, 133;
8th Australian Division 204–5;
9th Australian Division 133, 290, 294
Austria: Allied air operations 381, 449; Allied invasion plans 383, 403;
Anschluss 6, 7;
Jews in 7;
post-war 562;
Russian invasion 549
Autumn Mist, Operation see Ardennes Offensive
Avalanche, Operation 378–9
Avranches 486–7, 489
Avro Lancaster (bomber) 438
Avro Manchester (bomber) 438
Axis; Anti-Comintern Pact (1936) 5; failure to act as close allies 140, 195, 589;
Tripartite Pact (1940) 124, 193, 589–90
Azov, Sea of 175, 176, 523
B-17 Flying Fortress (bomber) 185, 187, 208, 248, 439, 444, 455
B-29 Superfortress (bomber) 566, 569, 571, 572, 573, 575
Babi Yar ravine 226, 227
Bacon, Lieutenant Allon 350
Bad Godesberg 8
Bad Reichenhall 144
Badoglio, Marshal Pietro 124, 377, 379, 384
Baghdad 131
Bagnold, Ralph 120
Bagration, Marshal Peter 532
Bagration, Operation 532–5, 605
Bagrayan, General Ivan 542
bakeries, mobile 51, 272
Baku oilfields 139
Balaton, Lake 544, 545
Baldwin, Stanley (later 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley) 430
ball-bearings 114, 444, 445
Balme, Sub-Lieutenant David 350
Baltic Sea 173, 541, 542, 549
Baltic States 25, 153, 154, 162, 164, 534, 541, 590; see also Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania
Baranowice 222–3
Barbara Line 384
Barbarossa, Operation (German invasion of USSR): codename 146–7; comparison with Operation Bagration 534;
ethnic cleansing of occupied territories 163–5;
German generals’ compliance with plans 141–3, 601;
German unpreparedness for winter conditions 176–80;
Hitler’s errors 140–41, 148, 149–50, 163–4, 165–6, 168–70, 177–80, 324, 588–9, 590, 599–600;
launch of 156–60;
plans for 137–54;
size of 155–6, 160–61;
Soviet unpreparedness for invasion 154–6;
and Stalingrad 315
Barbie, Klaus 83
Barce 286
Bardia 121, 129
Bari 384
Barker, John Sears, Seven Steps Down 399
Bastogne 506, 507
Bataan 208, 209; ‘Death March’ 209, 275
Batavia 210
Bath 430
Battalion 101 (German Reserve Police) 224–5
Battleaxe, Operation 128
Batyuk, Colonel Nikolai 333
Baudrillart, Alfred-Henri-Marie, Cardinal-Archbishop of Paris 150
Baumbach, General Werner 430
bauxite 351, 545
Bayerlein, Fritz 293
Bayeux 488
Bayreuth 220
Baytown, Operation 379
BBC 37, 65, 437, 471
Beaufre, General André 53, 57, 59, 75–6
Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, 1st Baron 92, 95, 98, 145, 559
Beck, General Ludwig 410
Becklingen 498
Beda Fomm, battle of (1941) 121–2, 123
Beerhall Putsch (1923) 16, 138, 146, 586
Beevor, Antony 554
BEF (British Expeditionary Force): first 22, 53, 54, 59–60, 62–3, 586, 587; second 71, 72–3; see also Dunkirk evacuation
Belchem, Lieutenant-Colonel Ronald 122
Belden, Jack 378–9
Belfast, HMS 36
Belgium: Allied air raids on 451; armed forces 55, 56;
German forces stationed in 463, 473;
German invasion 4
8–9, 53, 55, 56, 60, 136;
German occupation 85;
Jews in 78;
neutrality 22, 49, 52–3;
servicemen in Allied forces 107, 477;
surrender 65, 70, 71;
V-weapon attacks on 518, 519
Belgorod 414, 416, 418
Belgrade 124, 430, 540
Bell, George, Bishop of Chichester 456
Bellows, Signal Sergeant James 474–5
Belorussia 25, 534, 590, 591
Below, Maria von 446
Below, Nicolaus von 62, 446, 521
Benghazi 121, 123, 127, 129, 133, 284, 286–7
Bennett, General Gordon 206
Bennett, Private Paul G. 377
Bentley Priory, Middlesex 94
Beobachtungdienst (German radio monitoring service) 367–8
Berchtesgaden 8, 50, 91, 146, 177, 472
Berdyansk 175
Bergen 39, 40, 41
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp 476, 576
Berghof (Hitler’s Alpine retreat) 91, 146–7, 480
Bergues 60
beri-beri 274
Beria, Lavrenti 25, 158, 162, 550, 600
Berlin: Allied advance on 550; battle of (1945) 550–54, 559–60;
bombing of 100, 102, 429, 431, 439, 440, 446, 447, 450–51, 454, 460, 551, 587;
Hitler’s bunker 551;
Hitler’s proposed rebuilding of 114;
Kroll Opera House 92;
Ploetzensee Prison 482;
Russian advance on 521, 532, 545, 549–50;
Spandau Prison 146
Berne 546
Bernhard Line 384
Besançon 113
Bessarabia 154
Bethe, Hans 574
Béthouart, General Antoine 43
Béthune 60
Bevin, Ernest 398
Bezymyanny (‘Nameless’ town) 182
Białystok 26, 158, 222, 244, 534
Bibbiena 403
Bidault, Georges 490
Bigamy, Operation 286–7
Biggin Hill 99
Billotte, General Gaston 56, 59
Bir Hacheim 133, 134
Birkenau see Auschwitz-Birkenau
Birmingham 91, 102, 103
Bisley 304
Bismarck, Prince Otto von 57
Bismarck (battleship) 351, 353, 360–64
Bismarck Archipelago 210
Bizerta 307, 314
‘Black Book’ 90–91
Black, Conrad 140, 193
Black Forest 35, 431
Blaker, Captain Jim 267
Blamey, General Sir Thomas 126
Blanchard, General Georges 53
Blaskowitz, General Johannes 23
Bletchley Park (British Government Code and Cypher School) 99, 126, 298, 348, 349–51, 363, 368, 369, 417, 598
Blitz 100–104, 105, 106, 108, 110, 430, 458, 459–60, 538, 576
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