by John Keegan
Czechoslovakia 31-2, 409, 427-8, 495-6
Daladier, Edouard 31-2
Dalton, Hugh 405
Darlan, Admiral Jean Francois 281
de Gaulle, General Charles 51, 55, 63, 65, 67, 70, 269-72, 332, 344-5, 411
Degrelle, Léon 437-8, 442
Denmark 37-8, 234
Dentz, General Henri 270-1
Devers, General Jacob 422
Dietl, General Eduard 38, 402
Dietrich, General Sepp 127, 341, 367
Dill, General Sir John 122
Dollmann, General Friedrich 326
Dönitz, Admiral Karl 84-7, 90-3, 175, 441, 443, 447
Donovan, Colonel William 123
Doolittle, Colonel James 223-4, 358-9
Doorman, Admiral Karel 214-16
Dornberger, Walter 484-5
Douhet, Giulio 74, 348, 483
Doumenc, General Aimé 54, 60
Dowding, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh 80
Dragoon, Operation 297, 300-1, 315-16
Dresden 360, 493
Dulles, Alan 482
Dunkirk 66-7
Dynamo, Operation 66
Eagle, Operation 78
Eaker, General Ira C. 298-9, 355
East Indies 214-15, 250-51
Eberbach, General Hans 340
Ebert, Friedrich 19
economies, national 82-3, 173-8
see also production
Eden, Anthony 66, 259, 267
Edwards, Paul 178
Egypt 104-5, 115, 119
Eichelberger, General Robert 244
Eichen, Lieutenant Sidney 325
Einstein, Albert 487
Eisenhower, General Dwight D. 262-4, 281-2, 291, 313-15, 338, 344, 364, 369, 438-9
Ellis, Major Earl 473
Engels, Friedrich 3, 6
Enigma cipher machine 88, 132-3, 419, 420
Erickson, Professor John 148, 156, 165, 170, 379, 385, 389-91, 404, 433-4, 442-3, 446
espionage 417-18
Ethiopia 120, 266-70, 344
Evans-Pritchard, Edward 268
Falaise Gap, Battle of 331-45
Falkenhorst, General Nikolaus von 37
Final Solution’ 238-9
Finland 35-6, 108, 169, 401-2, 425-6
Fischer, Fritz 1
Fletcher, Admiral Frank John 225
Flower, Desmond 80
Flowers, Thomas 420
food 6-7, 82-3
Foote, Alexander 148
Formosa 474
Fortitude, Operation 311
France
army 51, 53-4
Blitzkrieg 45-72
casualties 493
invasion 61-72
occupation 233-4, 310
resistance 406
surrender 70-2
Franco, General Francisco 105
Frank, General 492
Frederick II, King of Prussia (the Great) 125, 213, 453
Free French forces 269-71, 276, 411
Freikorps 18-22
Fretter-Pico, General Maximilian 430
Freud, Sigmund 11
Freyberg, Major-General Bernard 131, 133, 136, 138-9, 298, 421-2
Frick, Wilhelm 491
Friedeburg, General Hans von 447
Friesner, General Johannes 303
Frisches Haff 494
Fritsch, General Werner von 31
‘Fritz’ plan 108-9
Fromm, General Friedrich 365
Fuchs, Klaus 487
Fuller, Major-General J.F.C. 332
Galland, Lieutenant General Adolf 78, 81
Gamelin, General Maurice 52-5, 59, 62, 64, 332
Gavin, General James 325
Gehlen, Colonel Reinhard 399, 401
Genda, Minoru 207, 210
George VI, King of Great Britain 72
Georges, General Alphonse Joseph 54-5, 59, 60, 63, 65
Gericke, Captain Walter 135, 139
Germany
aircraft 50-1, 76-7, 129
arms 172-3
army 54, 141-2
casualties 494-5
economy and production 82-3, 173, 178, 233-7
marshalate 101-3
post-war 493-5
rockets 484-7
tanks 51, 176, 333-4, 335, 340-1
U-boats 83-95
Gilbert Islands 212, 248
Giraud, General Henri 58, 281
Goebbels, Josef 192, 329, 357, 365, 384, 385, 445, 453
Goering, Hermann 25, 67, 75, 77-9, 80, 101, 111, 130, 383, 441, 443, 491
Golikov, Marshal F.I. 387
Goodwood, Operation 327, 337
Gordov, V.N. 186
Gort, Field Marshal John 54-5, 66-7
Graf Spee 37, 84
Graham, D. 305
Gransard, General P.P.J. 61
Graziani, Marshal Rodolfo 119, 272-3, 293
Greece 106, 115-18, 120-2, 126-8, 428-9, 490, 492
Guadalcanal 241-3
Guam 211
Guariglia, Raffaele 291
Guderian, General Heinz 45, 48, 51, 63-5, 110, 150-1, 158-68, 176, 331, 335, 383-9, 424, 440
Guzzoni, Alfredo 289-90
Hacha, Emil 32
Haganah 490
Hague Convention 152
Haile Selassie, Emperor 267-9
Halder, General Franz 46-9, 64, 65, 70, 108-10, 124, 151, 157-60, 165, 180, 184-5
Halifax, Lord 53
Halsey, Admiral William 224, 244, 246-7, 466, 469-70
Hamburg 355-6, 361
Harding, General John 299
Harpe, General Josef 432
Harris, Air Chief Marshal Arthur 346-8, 352-3, 355-7, 358, 361
Hart, Admiral Thomas 218-19
Hassell, Ulrich von 57
Hausser, General Paul 341
Hess, Rudolf 21, 25, 141, 148
Heusinger, Colonel Adolf 159
Heydrich, Reinhardt 239, 409, 428
Heydte, Baron von der 135
Higgings Company of New Orleans 473
Himmler, Heinrich 30, 235-9, 365, 404, 424, 441, 443, 492
Hindenburg, General Paul von 27, 434
Hinsley, Professor Harold 419
Hirohito, Emperor 204, 488
Hiroshima 482, 487
Hitler, Adolf
and Allied invasion 307-16, 325-6, 335-6, 340-3, 362-3
and Allied invasion of Italy 288-92
Anschluss 31
and appeasement 31-2
Ardennes campaign 365-8, 377
army command 54, 259, 379, 458
and Barbarossa 142, 152, 157-9, 166, 168-9, 176
and Battle of Britain 75-9, 80-1
bomb plot against 329-30
and Bulgaria 120
and ‘Case Red’ 65
and ‘Case Yellow’ 46-8, 55
and concentration camps 237
and Crete 129, 139
and Czechoslovakia 31-2
death 444
and Dietl 38-9
and Freikorps 21-2
French defeat 71
and the generals 28-34
and Graf Spee 37
and Greece 105-6, 115-18, 121
and Hungary 427, 430
ideology 21-2, 82, 112-113, 407-8, 453-4
and intelligence 417
and Kursk 387-91, 393-9, 401-4
and Manstein Plan 48-9, 59, 64
and Mussolini 288, 408
Nazi revolution 26-8
and North Africa 105, 120, 274, 278, 281-4, 383
and Plan ‘Blue’ 180-5
and Poland 32-5
Putsch 23-6
and rockets 485-6
and Scandinavia 36-9
Soviet offensive on Berlin 431-3, 436-7, 440-41
and Stalingrad 189-92, 383-5
and strategic bombing 350
and tanks 335, 340-2
and U-boats 85
and USA 197, 453-4
and USSR 103-4, 107-13
and Volksgrenadiers 424
and war supplies 172-3
and Yugoslavia 122-7
Ho Chi Minh 491
Hodges, General 370
Hoepner, General Erich 51, 162-4, 165, 168
Homma, General Masaharu 219
Hong Kong 211-12
Hopkins, Harry 261, 457
Horthy, Admiral 124, 302, 426-27
Hoth, General Hermann 51, 151, 158, 164, 165, 182-3, 392
Hudson, Captain D.T. 413
Hull, Cordell 202, 205
Hungary 104, 302-3, 426-7, 430-1, 492
Huntziger, General Charles 60, 71
Husky, Operation 288-91
Iceland 87
Ichi-Go offensive 463, 466, 471
Iida, General Shojira 216-17, 464
Imamura, General Hitoshi 245
imperialism 17-18, 407-9
Indo-China 204, 490, 497
see also countries by name
Indonesia 215-16, 490
industrialisation 7-8
industry
Germany 172-3, 358-9
occupied countries 233-5
UK 175-8
USA 177-8
USSR 108-9, 170-1
intelligence
and Crete landings 132-3
Czechoslovakia 409
espionage 417-18
of Japanese strategy 202-4, 209
‘Lucy’ network 148, 391, 417-18
Overlord 311, 317
Poland 410
U-boats 88-9
and USSR 148-9
Iran 275
Iraq 271
‘Iron Curtain’ 495-6
Ironside, Field Marshal Sir Edmund 59
Irving, David 113
Ismay, General Sir Hastings Lionel 380
Italy
Allied campaign in 291-306
casualties 493
invasion of Africa 265-6
invasion of Greece 116
Mussolini’s rise 286
Winter Position 294-7
World War I 285
Iwo Jima 474, 475
Jacob, Ian 456
Japan
A-bombing 487-8
and China 199-202, 232, 461-4, 471, 491-2
defeat 461-71, 487-8
Doolittle raid 223
economy 82, 173-5
Leyte Gulf 466-71
Okinawa 472-8
preparations for war 202-5
production 467
strategic bombing of 480-2
strategy 197-205
Java 215-16, 490
Jeschonnek, General Hans 50, 348
Jews 238-9, 490
Jodl, General Alfried 104, 108-10, 130, 159, 167, 184, 192, 308, 366-7, 383, 387, 441, 447, 492
Juin, General Alphonse 299
Junge, Traudl 444
Kallay, Miklos 302
Kaltenbrunner, Ernst 492
kamikaze tactics 472, 475-8
Kantaria, Meliton 444
Keitel, General Wilhelm 46, 71, 101, 130, 366, 383, 441, 492
Kenney, General George 245
Kesselring, Field Marshal Albert 48, 50, 75, 101, 282, 292-7, 300, 304, 439
Khrushchev, Nikita S. 156, 177
Kielsmansegg, Captain Graf von 63
Kiev 156, 160-1
Kimmel, Admiral H.E. 214
King, Admiral Ernest 240, 247, 258-60, 261, 315, 466, 474
King, General Edward 219
Kinzel, Manfred 94
Kipling, Rudyard 11, 16
Kirponos, General Mikhail 146, 148-9, 156-7, 160
Kleist, Field Marshal Ewald von 45, 111, 157, 160, 181, 184, 191, 331, 387, 395, 398-400
Kluge, General Günther von 101, 153, 158, 168, 326, 329, 340-1, 395
Knowles, Commander Kenneth 88
Koenig, Pierre 270, 276
Koga, Admiral Mineichi 246
Kohima 465
Koiso, Kuniaki 474, 482, 492
Konev, Marshal Ivan 146, 168, 380, 392-3, 398-403, 431-5, 438, 440-2, 446
Konoye, Prince Fumimaro 197-8, 201, 203, 230, 492
Korea 497
Korten, Günther 348
Koryzis, Alexander 127
Krebs, General Hans 440-1, 445-6
Kretschmer, Otto 94
Krueger, General Walter 468, 471
Krupp, Alfred 8
Küchler, General Georg von 398
Kulik, G.I. 144-6
Kuomintang 462
see also Chiang Kai-shek
Kurita, Vice-Admiral Takeo 469-70
Kursk 288, 381-2, 386-93
landing craft 315, 321-2, 473-4
Lattre de Tassigny, General Jean de 69
Laval, Pierre 121, 281, 344
Leahy, Admiral William 480
Lebrun, Albert 55, 70
Leclerc, General Philippe 270, 344, 491
Leeb, Field Marshal Ritter von 49, 101-3, 150, 155-9, 161-2
Leese, General Oliver 259, 299
Lelyoshenko, General D.D. 168
LeMay, General Curtis 481
Lend-Lease 88, 93, 176-7, 258, 455
Leningrad 161-2, 493
Leopold, King of Belgium 57
Lettow-Vorbeck, General von 265
Leyte Gulf, Battle of 466-71
Libya 119, 266, 272-4
Liddell Hart, Basil 332, 352
Lindemann, Professor Frederick (Lord Cherwell) 352
List, Field Marshall Wilhelm 101, 184
Löhr, General Alexander 131, 304
London, bombing of 79, 351, 486, 493
Lorrain, Claude 306
Lossberg, Colonel Bernhard von 102, 104, 108
Lossow, General Otto von 24-5, 30
Lovett, Robert A. 359
Lucas, General John P. 297
Luck, Hans von 327
‘Lucy’ network 148, 391, 417-18
Ludendorff, General Erich 24-5
Luftwaffe 50, 75-81, 348
Lüttich, Operation 340-1
Lutyens, Edwin 16
MacArthur, General Douglas 218-19, 240-1, 244-5, 247, 250, 262, 466, 474, 480-1, 488
McClusky, Lieutenant-Commander Wade 228
Machiavelli, Niccolò 457
McNeill, Professor William 4, 9, 12
Madagascar 269
Maercker, General Ludwig von 19-20
‘Magic’ 202-5, 224, 246, 419, 422, 482
Maginot Line 47, 50-8, 69
Malaya 212-13, 231
Malenkov, Georgy 154, 379
Malinovsky, Marshal R.Y. 386, 430, 438, 488
Malta 130
Manchuria 200, 230-1, 461-3, 487, 491
Mannerheim, Marshal Carl Gustav 36, 162, 169, 401, 426
Mannheim 350
Mansbridge, Major-General E.C. 490
Manstein, Field Marshal Erich von 47-9, 60, 110, 150, 161, 180-3, 384-88, 398-400
Manteuffel, General Hasso von 368, 442
Mao Zedong 203, 462-3, 491
Marianas Islands 250, 467
Marita, Operation 118, 122
Market Garden, Operation 363
Marshall, General George C. 240, 258-64, 290, 312, 457, 487, 491
Marshall Islands 249
Marx, Karl 5
Matsui, General Iwane 463
Matsuoka, Yosuke 201
Maxim, Hiram 7
Mekhlis, L.Z. 144, 380
Mende, Karl Heinz 72
Merrill’s Marauders 462, 471
Metaxas, General John 116, 120
Michael, King of Romania 303, 425
Middleton, Drew 58
Midway 223-9, 423
Mihailović, Draza 126, 413-15
Mikolajczyk, Stanislaw 404
Mikoyan, A.I. 170
Milch, Field Marshal Erhard 50, 75, 101
militarisation 3-22
Milward, Professor Alan 82
Minsk 151, 153
Mirković, General Bora 122-3
Mitchell, General William 74
Mitscher, Admiral Marc 249-50, 476
Model, Field Marshal Walther 160, 342, 367, 388-93, 400, 402-4, 439
M
ohnke, SS Brigadeführer Wilhelm 444
Molotov, V.M. 33, 105, 106-7, 154, 165
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact 33, 35, 102-3, 107, 117, 148-9, 410-11
Monte Cassino 295, 296, 298-9
Montgomery, Field Marshal Bernard 59, 140, 259, 262, 277-97, 312-14, 324-32, 336-9, 344, 362-4, 370-1
Morell, Dr Theodor 441
Morgan, General Sir Frederick 313
Morgenthau, Henry 453
Moscow 108-9, 157-61, 166-8
Mountbatten, Admiral Lord Louis 464
Mufti of Jerusalem, the 267, 271
Mussolini, Benito 20, 31, 33, 69-70, 105-6, 115-20, 265, 272, 284-91, 408
Mutaguchi, General Renya 463-6
Nagasaki 482, 487
Nagumo, Admiral Chuichi 208-11, 226-9
Nazi Party 22, 26-8
Nehring, General Walther 282
Netherlands 49, 56-7
East Indies 215-16
Neuhoff, CSM 135
New Guinea 224-5, 243-4, 224-5, 471
Newbold, Douglas 266
Niedermair, John 473
Nimitz, Admiral Chester 227, 240-3, 244, 247-50, 463, 466, 474, 477
Nishimura, Vice-Admiral Shoji 469
Nobel, Alfred 8
Noël, Léon 71
Nomura, Admiral Kichisaburo 203, 205
Norman, Max 420
Normandy 311, 313-14
see also Overlord
Norway 36-9, 311
Nuremberg 492
occupation 230-239
Asia 230-2
Eastern Europe 235-9, 410
Western Europe 232-5
O’Connor, General Richard 119, 273, 279
Office of Strategic Services (OSS), USA 416
Okinawa 474, 475-8, 479
Oldendorff, Admiral Jesse 469-70
Osterkamp, General Theodor 78
Overlord, Operation 264, 307-30
bocage campaign 325-9
deception plans 310-16
forces 316-19
German confusion 319-22
Panzer response 318, 322-5
Overstraeten, General Robert van 57
Overy, Dr Richard 73-4
Ozawa, Admiral Jisaburo 250, 469-70
Pacific
East Indies 214-18
Japanese occupation 230-2
Japanese strategy 206-8
Malaya 211-14
Midway 221-9
Pearl Harbor 208-11
Philippines 218-20
US counter-attack 240-51
Pahlavi, Reza Shah 275
Palestine 490
Papagas, General Alexandros 120, 125, 126-7
paratroops 129-30, 139-40
Crete 133-40
Overlord 320
Paris, liberation 342-5
Park, Air Vice-Marshal Keith 80
Pas de Calais 311, 313
Patch, General Alexander 301, 370, 438
Patton, General George 280-3, 289, 301, 311, 338-9, 362-5, 369-70, 438-9
Paul, Prince of Yugoslavia 122
Paulus, General Friedrich von 108, 181-2, 186, 187, 189-92
Pearl Harbor 206, 208-11
Peenemünde 486
Percival, General Arthur 212-14
