by Colin Smith
Operation Lila, 420
Operation Menace, 111, 113, 116–17, 119, 127–8, 133, 135
Operation Mercury, 182
Operation Ration, 167
Operation Reservist, 364, 378–9, 384, 387–8, 409
Operation Sealion, 158
Operation Terminal, 364, 378, 387–8, 409
Operation Torch, 347–50, 355, 360–1, 364, 371, 379, 388, 392, 395, 405, 413, 425
Operation Villain, 387–8
Oran, 46, 62, 75, 82, 84–5, 88, 93
casualties, 384
escape of French ships, 397–400
invasion, 363–5, 370, 378–85, 388, 393, 400, 402, 408–10, 413, 418
post-invasion politics, 424–6
Orient Express, 184
Orkney, 40, 419
Orongea, 320, 322, 327, 332, 333
Orr, Lieutenant Colonel Arthur, 224–6, 228–31, 239, 242
Orzel, 41
Oscarsborg fortress, 41
Oslo, 41, 43, 355
Ottawa, 141
Ottoman Empire, 165–6, 184, 246–7
Ouakam airfield, 118–19
Owen, Wilfred, 26–7
Oxford University, 25, 144
Painlevé, Paul, 19
Palestine, 165–6, 171–3
civilian casualties, 268
First World War campaign, 175, 254
and Iraq campaign, 179–80
and Syrian campaign, 188, 191–2, 194–5, 202, 220–1, 225–6, 230–4, 245, 250–1, 253–4, 269
and Zionists, 165, 172, 192, 254
Palestine Police, 197, 236
Palmach, 192, 194, 196
Palmer, Major Anthony, 293
Palmer, Captain Peter Llewellyn, 287, 301, 305
Palmyra, 163, 181, 283, 246–51, 253–7, 261, 270
paratroopers, dummy, 298
Paris
and anti-Semitism, 14, 31
and First World War, 17, 26
German occupation, 3, 45, 90–1, 147, 269
International Exposition, 28
liberation, 428–9
royal visit, 9–10, 27
victory parade (1919), 22–3
Paris, siege of, 90
Paris, 2, 4, 47, 49–52, 55–6
Paris Commune, 90
Paris Protocols, 169, 184, 273
Parisian press, 18, 31, 105
Pas de Calais, 15, 158
Passchendaele, Battle of, 35, 124, 256
Patterson, Captain Joseph, 289–90, 294, 314, 315n, 328, 332, 342–3
Patton, General George S., 363, 386, 405, 413–16
Pearce, Private, 266
Pearl Harbor, 275, 285, 331, 351, 396
Pedder, Lieutenant-Colonel Richard, 197–203, 207–10, 214, 218, 286
Pendar, Kenneth, 371, 389, 392
Pennland, 114, 117, 128
Pennsylvania, 349
Perrin, Capitaine, 121
Persée, 123
Pershing, General John, 23
Persia, 187, 392
Persian Gulf, 164–6, 184
Perth, 203–4, 235
Pétain, Cyrille, 16
Pétain, Maréchal Philippe
and Americans, 145–7
Anglophobia, 25, 89
and Britain, 92, 95, 142, 145, 147
and Churchill, 141–3, 145, 154
and collaboration, 144, 159
and Dakar raid, 132
and de Gaulle, 17, 21, 29, 103
and Dieppe raid, 338
and dismissal of Laval, 154, 156–9
and Duke of Reichstadt’s funeral, 155–7
and First World War, 3–5, 15–21, 24–5, 96
and French fleet, 70
and French North Africa, 397, 407, 411, 420
and Germany, 137
and Giraud, 350, 394
and Laval assassination attempt, 274
and loss of Syria, 260
and Madagascar, 284
meeting with Hitler, 140–5, 147
and Mers-el-Kébir, 92–3
and Munich Agreement, 29
Paris reception, 428
and reinstatement of Laval, 277
and Rif Wars, 112
and total occupation, 416–17, 420
trial and sentence, 429
and Vichy regime, 105, 107
Peters, Captain Frederic Thornton, 364, 379, 381–4, 408–9
Peyrouton, Marcel, 156–8
Philby, Kim, 379
Phillips, Admiral Tom, 411
Picard, Commandant, 268
Picasso, Pablo, 28
Pichevin, Capitaine de corvette, 50–2, 54–5
Pickering, Corporal Donald, 267
Pilotage Parties, 369, 371
Pitcher, Warrant Officer, 257–8
Placon, Amiral, 96
Plan Charles, 123, 127
Platon, Amiral, 284
Platt, Lieutenant General Sir William, 339, 344–5, 348
Plymouth, 46, 56, 101, 149, 435
Plymouth Sound, 2, 409
Podensac, 34–5
Poitiers, Battle of, 117
Poitiers, 116–17, 122
Poland, 3, 32, 38, 41, 152, 159, 397, 416
poliomyelitis, 359–60, 362, 423
Poncelot, 150
Ponvienne, Claude, 345
Popular Front, 5, 30–1, 34–6, 283, 350, 417, 425
Port Elizabeth, 282
Port Lyautey, 413
Port Said, 200, 203
Portes, Comtesse Hélène de, 29, 32
Porthos, 123
Portsmouth, 46, 322
Portuguese East Africa, 296
Pottier, Maître armurier, 102
Pound, Sir Dudley, 60
Poursuivante, 84, 86
Powell, Lieutenant, 322–3
Preneuf, Capitaine de frégate Martinant de, 412
Price, Captain Martin, 319, 321–3, 325, 327
Prien, Gunther, 331
Primauguet, 411–12
Prince Edward Island, 379
Princeton, New Jersey, 385
prisoners of war, French, 107, 145, 147, 155, 169, 338, 395
Provence, 58, 67, 70, 79, 423
Qasimiyah bridge, 191, 197, 201–2, 208
Quebec, 337
Quentel, Ingénieur mécanicien, 77–8
Quisling, Vidkun, 419
Rabat, 362, 410, 413, 423
radar, 38, 61, 85, 159, 398, 410
Raeder, Grosseadmiral Erich, 419–20
RAF Habbaniya, 163–4, 166, 170–2, 174–83, 185, 187, 246, 248–9, 272
RAF Nicosia, 245, 253, 259
RAF Shaibah, 164, 178
Raff, Lieutenant-Colonel Edson T., 387–8
Rahn, Dr Rudolf, 184, 260, 262
Ram, Havidar Goru, 220
Ramsay, Admiral Bertram, 60
Ranavalona, Queen, 283
Ranfurly, Hermione, Lady, 219
Ranfurly, Lieutenant the Earl of, 219
Rashid airfield, 179, 181–2
Rashid Ali, see al-Gaylani, Rashid Ali
Ravenstein, General Johannes von, 274
Rayak airfield, 181, 251, 262, 434
Raziel, David, 193
Red Army, 347, 406
Red Cross, 102, 114, 272, 391
Red Sea, 283, 285, 331, 336, 420
Redoubtable, 34
Regia Aeronautica, 355
Reichstadt, Duke of, 154–7
Reims offensive, 18–19
Relanger, Major, 230
Renault, 31, 275
tanks, 23, 223, 227–30, 232, 234–6, 238–41, 266, 271, 386, 413–14
Réunion, 282, 327, 344
Reynaud, Paul, 5, 29, 31–2, 41, 61–2, 90, 92, 105, 139
Reynier, Peter, 309–10, 326, 432
Reynier Lieutenant Roderick, 309, 326
Rhineland, 27
Rhodes, 167, 188, 199, 224, 245, 251, 271
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 3, 107–8, 138–9, 145, 158
Richardson, ‘Goon’, 129–30, 134
Richelieu, 46, 96–8, 118–19, 121, 128–9, 131–2, 134
Richthofen Squadron, 104
Riddler, Petty Officer Airman Tom, 82
Rif Wars, 112, 351, 369
Rigault, Jean, 389
Rigault de Genouilly, 84–5, 87, 185
Rimington, Commander Michael, 258
Rio de Janeiro, 41
Riqueval Bridge, 26
River Plate, Battle of the, 38–9, 46, 98, 170
Rivory, Sous-lieutenant George, 214
Roberts, Colonel Ouvry, 176
Robertson, Captain John, 240
Robin, Amiral, 421
Roches Noires, 412
Rocque, Colonel de la, 30
Rodney, Admiral Sir George, 36
Rome, 27, 93, 130, 246, 258, 275, 355
Rommel, General Erwin, 234, 245, 255, 289, 399
assassination attempt, 274–5
defeat and retreat, 345, 349, 356, 362–4, 368, 370
Western Desert offensives, 170–1, 173, 177, 187, 189, 201, 219, 225, 236, 272, 288, 335, 340
Ronsard, Pierre, 139
Roope, Lieutenant Commander Gerard, 44
Roosevelt, Alice, 106
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 34, 89–92, 106, 145, 147, 408
and Darlan, 424–5
and French North Africa, 346–7, 350, 355, 361, 371, 394–5
and polio, 359, 406, 423
and rebuilding of US Army, 351
Roosevelt, Brigadier General Ted, 408
Roosevelt, Theodore, 106, 408
Rose, Lieutenant ‘Dopey’, 294
Rosenberg, Alfred, 108
Rougier, Professor Louis, 141–3, 154
Royal Fusiliers, 191, 221–32, 235–6, 239, 242
Royal Marines, 48, 96, 100–1, 114–15, 131, 135, 315, 319, 321–7, 364, 387, 409
Royal Scots Fusiliers, 225, 286, 307–10, 314, 316–17, 326, 328, 432
Royal Welch Fusiliers, 286, 298–301, 307, 309, 325–7, 329, 339, 341
Rubis, 100
Rufisque Bay, 123–6, 131, 134
Ruhr industrial area, 103, 155
Runstedt, Feldmarschal von, 417
Russell, Commander Archibald, 376
Russia, 10, 16, 19, 22, 158–9, 182, 187, 243–4, 248, 256, 260, 273–4, 346–7, 349, 356, 406, 395
Ryder, Major General Charles W., 365, 391–3, 401
Saburo, Lieutenant Akeida, 333–6
Safad, 191
Safi, 413
Saigon, 84, 299
Saint André, 58, 79, 87–8
St Cloud, 408–9
St Cyr, 16–17, 21, 158, 223
Saint Didier, 259
St George, 236
St Helena, 10, 154
St Lucia, 435
St Malo, 1, 99
St Nazaire raid, 275–7, 337
St Paul’s Cathedral, 142, 231
St Quentin, Count René Doynel de, 92
St Quentin canal, 26
Salisbury, Lord, 12
Sally Maersk, 168
Salonika, 246, 256, 258–9, 271–2
Saloum, river, 111
Salzburg, 271
Sambre canal, 26
San Juan Hill, 408
Sananein, 222
Sanguin, Capitaine de vaisseau, 77
Santon coastal battery, 69
Sarajevo, 107n
Sardinia, 368
Sartre, Jean-Paul (La Nausée), 29
Saskatchewan, 285
Sassa, 224, 226, 231
Saussine, Capitaine de corvette de, 150
Savorgnan de Brazza, 120, 127
Savoy Grenadiers, 224
Sayehg, Hadji Nicolas, 268
Scamaroni (Gaullist officer), 118
Scapa Flow, 40, 42, 115, 124, 331, 419
Scarpanto, 271
Scharnhorst, 40, 43, 70
Schillte, Ensiegne de vaisseau, 378, 384
Schmidt, Paul, 159–60, 403
Schueller, Eugène, 30
Scotland, 68, 187, 197–8, 286, 288
Scots Greys, 232–3
Scottish Commando March, 199
Sea of Galilee, 192, 220, 251
Seaforth Highlanders, 314, 324–6, 331
Seba Biyer, 255
Sebou, river, 413–14
Seine, river, 275
Seinturier, Lieutenant, 249
Senegalese, 11, 19, 23, 116, 127, 192, 222, 225–7, 230–1, 233, 235, 240, 242, 261, 263–4, 304–5, 324–5
Service d’Ordre de la Légion, 408, 418, 424
Seychelles, 331, 339
Sheikh Meskine, 221, 225, 228
Sherman, General, 408
Shirer, William S., 89
Sicily, 169, 364, 368, 370, 395
Sidi Barrani, 146–7, 240
Sidi El Ayachia, 434
Sidi Ferruch, 390
Sidney Smith Barracks, 269
Sidon, 211, 232, 268
Sierra Leone, 113, 154, 287, 289
Sigmaringen Castle, 429
signals intelligence, 151–3
Simon, Major Jocelin, 300–5, 310, 323, 338
Simpson, Wallis, 90
Simpson-Jones, Peter, 344
Sims, Lance Corporal, 277
Singapore, 164, 166, 288
singe, 206
‘Singing Third’, 375–7, 385–6, 393
Sipido, Jean-Baptiste, 9
Sitting Bull, 16
Slim, Major General William, 246, 256–7, 331, 340
Smart, Air Vice-Marshal Reggie, 164–5, 171, 175–8, 180
Smith, Sergeant Leslie, 182
Smuts, General Jan, 283, 285, 331, 335–6, 338
Sobieski, 115
Sohlberg Circle, 107
Solidarité Française, 30
Somaliland, 3, 11, 170, 336, 343, 420
Somerville, Admiral Sir James Fownes, 60–9, 73–7, 79–82, 84–8, 93, 114, 167, 185, 290, 331, 378, 398, 412, 421, 422
Somerville, Molly, 86
Somme, river, 6, 91
Somme, Battle of the, 18, 230
Sonderkommando Junck, 182–3, 187
Soufflet (Gaullist officer), 118
South Africa, 9–10, 22, 219, 282–5, 329, 338, 354
South African Air Force, 301, 332, 339n
South Lancashire Regiment, 286, 289, 307–9, 316, 324, 326, 329, 342–3
Southampton, 39, 151
Soviet Union, 36, 142, 159, 189, 287
Spahis, 237
Spain, 5, 18, 93, 139, 142–3, 158, 225, 277, 387, 429–30
Spanish-American War, 349, 408
Spanish Civil War, 31, 36, 167
Spanish Morocco, 139, 388, 405, 415, 427
Spanish republicans, 30, 36, 261
Spears, Major General Sir Edward, 5–6, 19–20, 113, 115, 121, 126–7, 130, 133
Special Boat Squadron, 369
Special Night Squads, 192
Special Operations Executive (SOE), 193, 219, 281–2, 284–5, 296–7, 328, 330, 344, 371, 381, 426
Special Service Squadron, 286, 300, 304
Spithead naval review, 37, 422
Sprague, Commander Denis, 48–53, 55–6, 148–9, 435
Sproule, Lance-Corporal Noble, 202, 212, 218
SS Bangkok, 281
SS Chantilly, 168
SS Padaran, 281–2
SS Wartenfels, 296
Stalin, Josef, 41, 140, 260, 347, 395
Stalingrad, 337, 349, 356, 406
Stannard, Lieutenant Richard, 45n
Stavanger, 41–2
Stevens, Brigadier Jack Edwin Starwell, 194–7, 201, 206–7
Stewart, Sir Frederick, 263
Stockman, Sergeant Jim, 324–5
Stockport, 289, 316
Stockwell, Hugh, 309, 327
Stoneman, Ena, 434
Straits of Messina, 59
Strasbourg, 109
Strasbourg, 37–8, 46, 58, 67, 70, 73, 76–7, 92, 116
escape from Mers-el-Kébir, 80–7, 398, 422
and sinking of French fleet, 418, 421–3
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sp; Student, General Kurt, 186
Sturges, Major General Robert, 286, 288–9, 297, 299–301, 306–7, 312, 314–15, 323–4, 326–7, 329, 339
Sudan, 11, 13, 174
Sudan Defence Force, 225
Sudetenland, 28
Suez Canal, 12, 36, 133, 285
sun spots, 266
Surcouf, Robert, 1, 45, 47, 54, 282
Surcouf, 1–2, 4, 46–56, 64, 100–2, 148–51, 272, 274, 355, 435
Sûreté, 30
Surprise, 124
Svenson, Lieutenant Colonel Edwin T., 375–7, 385–7, 393
Swedish iron ore, 40, 43
Switzerland, 18, 20–1, 36, 93, 350, 429–30
Sydney, 263, 332
Sydney University, 235
Syfret, Rear Admiral Neville, 288–90, 293, 296–7, 299, 308, 313–15, 319–20, 325–7, 329–30, 332, 365, 409
Syms, Midshipman Tony, 122
Syria, 163, 165, 167, 169, 172–3, 180, 183–5, 187–9, 345–6, 360, 362, 405
Syrian campaign, 219–67, 270–3, 288, 348, 386, 388
Taher, Rashid, 194, 196
Tait, Lance Corporal, 217–18
Talbot, Lieutenant Francis, 49–52, 55–6, 150
Tamatave, 284, 330, 338, 341
Tananarive, 281, 284, 337, 339, 341, 343–5, 348, 354
Tanganyika, 283, 296, 338
Tangiers, 152
tank warfare, 18–19, 21, 23, 26, 29, 146–7, 187–8, 300–6
Taranto, 146, 150
Tarleton, Brigadier Rupert, 314
Taurus railway, 184
Tedder, Air Vice-Marshal, 252, 263
Teissier, Henri, 352
Teissier, Lieutenant Jacques, 352–4
Tel Abu Danne, 257–8
Tel Aviv, 174, 200, 252
Tel el Cham, 224
Tel Kissoué, 223
Tel Kotchek, 184–5
Tel Shehab station, 220
Tennant, Admiral William, 340
Tennyson, Lord, 102
Terre Neuve, 88
Territorial Army, 32, 42–3, 175
Tevendale, Regimental Sergeant Major, 208, 210–12, 218
Théophile Gautier, 272
Things to Come (Wells), 28
Tibnin, 195–6
Tigre, 58, 80
Timbuktu, 291
Time magazine, 30, 105–6, 269
Times, The, 18, 95, 349
‘Tipperary’, 23
Tirpitz, 276
Tobruk, 170, 189, 199, 236, 260, 274–5, 337, 340, 392, 399, 432
Tokyo, 286, 299, 336
Tothill, Captain John, 212–13, 214n
Toulon, 37, 46, 69, 75, 84, 87, 100, 245, 271, 361–2, 406, 417–23
Toulouse, 15
Tours, 5, 139, 144
Trafalgar, Battle of, 34, 36, 160, 383
Trafalgar Square, 347
Transjordan, 165, 171–2, 174, 220, 224
Transjordan Frontier Force, 225, 235
Travers, Susan, 114–15, 121
Treaty of Versailles, 22, 24, 32, 109, 112, 175, 419
Trentham Park, 99
Tripoli (Lebanon), 165, 169, 191, 193, 243, 246, 255, 258, 270
Tripoli (Libya), 170, 356, 368, 370
Tromso, 44
Trondheim, 40, 42–3
