Wilhelm Gustloff (liner) 549
Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands 55, 117
Wilhelmshaven 22, 431
Wilmot, Chester 433
Wilson, Lieutenant-General Henry ‘Jumbo’ (later 1st Baron Wilson) 122–3
Wiltshire Regiment 406
Wimberley, Major-General Douglas 290
‘Window’ (anti-radar device) 444, 464
Wingate, Major-General Orde 120, 260–65, 267
Winkelman, General Henri 58
Winter Line 384, 385, 386
Winter Tempest, Operation 338, 339
Winter War, Russo-Finnish (1939–40) 29–34, 114, 143, 154, 171, 323, 587
Witzleben, Field Marshal Erwin von 75, 482
Wolfschanze (Wolf’s Lair; Hitler’s East Prussia HQ) 317, 480–81, 482–3, 551, 592
Wolverine, HMS 357
women: Korean ‘comfort’ women 275; and Russian war effort 329–30;
snipers 326, 330;
war crimes against 268, 275, 278–9, 280, 541, 554–6;
in war economies 110, 608
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (British) 95
Women’s Land Army (British) 110
Wood, Sir Kingsley 35, 111
Wormhout 64
Wright, Flight Lieutenant Robert 101
Wünsche, Max 100
Wyllie, Bruce 436
Xerxes 301
Y Department (British monitoring organization) 99, 348
Yalta Conference (1945) 454, 538, 545–6, 550, 571
Yamamoto, Admiral Isoroku 188, 189, 192, 252, 253
Yamashita, Lieutenant-General Tomoyuki 201–2, 206, 207
Yamato (battleship) 570
Yamauchi, General Masafumi 274
Yanagimoto, Captain Ryusaku 256
Yekaterinburg 139
Yelets 176
Yenangyaung 212
Yeremenko, General Andrei 542
Yokohama 190, 214, 566
Yokosuka 214
York 88
Yorktown, USS 189, 252, 253–4, 256
Young, Peter 291
Yugoslavia: Allied invasion plans 383, 403; Chetniks 125, 383;
German invasion 124–5, 587;
joins Axis 124;
partisans 117, 124, 383, 540;
post-war 546, 562;
Russian invasion 539, 540–41;
SOE operations in 117, 124
Yukhnov 171
Yunnan 212, 268
Yvoir 501
Z Force (Allied naval detachment) 202, 203–4
Zagreb 124
Zaitsev, Vasily 325–6
Zaporozhe 412, 528
Zeitzler, General Kurt: character 326, 592; Eastern Front 326, 334–5, 336, 344;
Operation Zitadelle (battle of Kursk) 412, 413, 416, 601;
replaces Halder 326, 592;
trial 593
Zholudev, Major-General V. 322, 331
Zhukov, General Georgi: background and character 154, 182, 328–9;
battle of Berlin 550, 559;
battle of Korsun 529;
battle of Kursk 413–14, 418, 421, 424, 427;
battle of Stalingrad 321, 323, 334, 338, 344;
and German invasion 156, 159;
and German surrender 560;
as military strategist 530;
offensives (1941–2) 176, 323, 591;
(1944) 529, 530;
(1945) 542, 543, 549;
orders shooting of retreating troops 183;
post-war career 561;
relations with other generals 601;
relations with Stalin 154, 530, 602;
war with Japan 182, 323
Zitadelle, Operation 412–13, 416, 417, 418–24, 427–8, 594
Zonhoven 508
Zossen 181
Zubza 272
Zuckerman, Solly (later Baron Zuckerman) 451
Zuikaku (aircraft carrier) 252
Zulu War (1879) 271
Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ZOB; Jewish combat organization) 243–4
Zyklon B (poison gas) 224, 226, 227–8, 229, 231, 232, 240
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