by Max Hastings
United States Army: shortage of trained intelligence officers, 500
United States Army Air Force (USAAF): resistance to intelligence, 211; bombing campaign, 212; use of economic intelligence, 552
United States Navy: Op-20-G codebreaking team, 100, 102, 159, 162, 166, 407, 417, 555, 559; cryptographic operations, 505
Unternehmen Bodden (German service in Spain), 65
uranium, 535
‘Uranus’, Operation, 227, 232
Uren, Captain Desmond, 349
Ustinov, Klop, 11
V-1 flying bombs: sites, 425–6; attack Britain, 426–8
V-2 rockets, 425, 427–9
V-Mann (Vertrauensmänner; informer), 269
V-weapons: intelligence on, 31; developed, 421–6; effect, 429
Vasilevsky, Lev, 534
Veesenmayer, Edmund, 333
Vehmehren, Paul, 365
Venlo incident (1939), 44–6, 68
Vennier, Paul, 255
Venona decrypts, 369
Vergine, Sgt George, 414
Vermehren, Erich and Elizabeth, 471–2
Vernadsky, V.I., 528
Vernam cipher, 411
Vernon, Lt. Denis, 256, 258
Vichy: codes known to Allies, 405
Vickers, Sir Geoffrey, VC, 202, 205, 210
Vinogradov, Boris, 375
Vinogradova, Lyuba, xxiv
Virginia (film), 290
Vittorio Veneto (Italian battleship), 84
Vivian, Valentine, 17, 207–8, 359, 362
Vogl, Major, 438
Voukelitch, Branko de, 34, 111, 181, 182
Voumas, George, 294
Waibel, Major Max, 307, 476
Wallace, David, 280
Wallenberg family, 344
Wallenberg, Jacob, 474
Wallis, Barnes, 350, 420
Walsingham, Sir Francis, 9, 206
Waltemath, Werner, 465
‘Walter’ (German agent), 63
WANDA-Netz teleprinter system, 413
Wanvig, Col. Harry, 290
war crimes trials, 552
War Office (British): W Code captured, 448
Ware, Harold, 372
Warsaw rising (1944), 322
Washington, DC: in wartime, 286
Watten (France), 425
Wavell, Gen. Sir Archibald, 84, 514
Weber, Werner, 452
Weber-Drohl, Ernst, 332
Wedermeyer, Gen. Albert, 298
Wehrmacht: voice-monitoring units, 66; Enigma traffic presents difficulties, 411, 413; intelligence organisation, 449; struggles in Russia, 456–7
Weigel, Corporal, 270
Weisband, William, 377
Welchman, Gordon, 73, 75–6, 78–9, 88–90, 415, 545
Wendt, Bruno, 33, 35
Wenger, Cmdr Joseph, 408
Wenneker,Captain Paul, 33, 138, 140, 179
Wenzel, Johann, 242
Werz, Leopold, 345
Whaddon Hall, 77
Wheeler, Donald, 377–8
White, Sir Dick, 366–7, 544
White, Harry Dexter (‘Lawyer’), 379–83, 543
White Rose group (Munich), 114
Wigginton (of SOE Cairo), 278
Wilkinson, Lt. Col. Gerald, 509, 537
Wilkinson, Peter, 52
Williams, Brigadier Edgar (‘Bill’): openness with Montgomery, xxi, 491; positions under Montgomery, 69; on excessive discretion, 488; on Kenneth Strong, 499; discounts Ardennes offensive, 500–1; on use of Ultra, 549; on credibility of information, 550; on availability of information, 554
Williamson, Harry (‘Tate’), 53
Willoughby, Maj. Gen. Charles, 508
Willson, Rear-Admiral Russell, 172
Wilson, Angus, 77
Winchell, Walter, 368
‘Window’ (counter-radar system), 249
Windsor, Edward, Duke of, 473
Windsor League, 439
Winn, Cmdr Rodger, 69, 216–19
Winter, Georgie de, 240, 249–50, 541
Winterbotham, Fred W., 3, 43, 80, 394; The Ultra Secret, xxvi
wireless see radio
Wisner, Frank, 536, 538, 545
Witt, Ernst, 452
Wolf, Markus, 385
Wolff, Lt. Gen. Karl, 315
women: at Bletchley Park, 74, 80, 87, 91; in OSS, 289; in US cryptographic service, 505–6; banned by Nimitz, 506
World Jewish Congress, 482
Wright, Fred, 278
Wright, Lt. Ham, 160, 166–7, 170
WRNS (Women Royal Naval Service): operate bombes, 81; employed at Bletchley Park, 87
Wuchinich, George, 377
Wunsch, Sgt Edward, 52
‘Würzburg’ (German radar system), 256, 258–9
Wylie, Tom, 361
Wynn-Williams, Charles, 414–16
‘Y Service’ (British), 47, 53, 66, 488, 499, 512
Yalta, 386, 402
Yamamoto, Admiral Isoroku, 150, 156, 163, 168–71, 173, 405–6
Yamasaki, Yoshiko (Voukelitch’s wife), 111, 236
Yardley, Herbert, 158, 451
Yatkov, Anatoli, 531, 534
Yenan province, China, 517
Yoshikawa, Ensign Takeo, 155
Young, Lt. Peter, 258
Yugoslavia: officers suborned by Germans, 65; Germany occupies, 106; wireless sets unused, 262; SOE operations in, 272, 278; OSS in, 294–5; Allied policy on, 364; Americans and British expelled after war, 536; guerrilla campaign, 556
Zaborow, Poland, 427
Zacharias, Captain Ellis, 143, 158–9
Zarubin, Elizabeth, 371, 382, 387, 529, 532
Zarubin, Vasily, 27–9, 122, 134, 371–2, 375, 380–2, 387, 529
Zavatarri, Lt. Col. Stefano, 339
Zeitzler, Kurt, 65
Zelman, Franklin, 525
‘Zeppelin’, Operation, xxii, 481
Zhukov, Georgi: in Far East, 38, 110; summoned to Kremlin, 127; kept in ignorance of foreign intelligence, 128; on German strategy, 129; on failure of ‘Mars’, 232
Zhuravlev, Boris, 115, 122, 131–2, 133
Ziegler, Madame (captured agent), 270
Zimmermann Telegram (1917), 9
Zlatowsky, Jane, 377
Zubov, Pyotr, 175–6
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Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy
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Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944–45
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan 1944–45
Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940–45
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939–45
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Scattered Shots
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ANTHOLOGY (EDITED)
The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes
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