The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War

by Andrew Roberts

  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