France and, 93, 200
German pact with, 3
German war with, 16, 17, 33, 65–67, 160
Poland and, 95
Spain, 138–39
Sparrle, Hugo, 75
Spears, Edward, 15
Speidel, Hans, 148–50, 149, 160–61
SS, 13, 18, 66n, 79–80, 82, 83, 85, 95, 104, 107, 125, 165, 172–73
Stalin, Joseph, 42, 200 Hitler and, 3
Stalingrad, 17
State Department, U.S., 10, 29, 30, 37–38, 46, 48–49, 59, 61, 127, 201
Stauffenberg, Claus von, 12–13
Stolberg Circle, 13
Strasbourg, 196
Student, Kurt, 67
Stülpnagel, Karl Heinrich von, 12–13, 66, 75
Stülpnagel, Otto von, 12, 13
Suhard, Emmanuel, 187–88, 189
Summersby, Kay, 192–94, 199
Syria, 31, 32
Taittinger, Pierre, 105
tank warfare, 6 Panzers, 6, 74, 84, 196
Tehran Conference, 42
Théâtre de la Madeleine, 13
Thiers, Adolphe, 113n
Thoma, Wilhelm von, 68n
Thorez, Maurice, 200
Tillon, Charles, 186, 199, 200
Tollet, André, 103, 104
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, 185–86, 185, 198
Tournières, 54
Truman, Harry, 134
Tunisia, 38–39
Turner, Harald, 13–14
Twenty-Eighth Infantry, 195, 195
Unger, Friedrich von, 152–53, 159, 160, 167, 172
Unger, Karl von, 73–74
United States: Civil War in, 204–5
Combined Chiefs of Staff, 47–48, 52, 59, 116–21
FCNL and, 41, 46–49, 51, 57, 61
French living in, 30
North Africa and, 35–37
Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 36, 62, 134
Pearl Harbor attack, 17, 32, 127, 132n
State Department, 10, 29, 30, 37–38, 46, 48–49, 59, 61, 127, 201
war declared by, 17
War Department, 46–47, 59, 114, 132n
Versailles, 196
Versailles treaty, 8
Vichy France, 7, 10, 13, 14, 17, 20, 27–33, 35, 36, 49, 61, 62, 94, 97–98, 104, 113, 127, 173, 181, 187–88, 200
Vissering, Richard, 190–91
Walborn, Claire, 106
War Department, U.S., 46–47, 59, 114, 132n
War Ministry (France), 176–77, 181, 190, 191, 193, 197
Warsaw Uprising, 95, 99
Wavell, Archibald, 31
Weller, George, 32
Welles, Sumner, 29–30
Weygand, Maxime, 1, 4, 6, 15, 25, 27
Wilson, Henry Maitland “Jumbo,” 31, 58–59
Wilson, Woodrow, 10
Wolf, Thomas, 164–65
World War I, 112, 205 France in, 1, 3, 7
World War II, 2 Battle of the Bulge, 204
Eisenhower’s view of, 203–5
French attitudes toward going to war, 2–3
Germany’s defeat in, 21, 68, 160, 203–5
liberation of Paris as prolonging, 203–5
Pearl Harbor attack, 17, 32, 127, 132n
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Names: Smith, Jean Edward, author. Title: The liberation of Paris : how Eisenhower, De Gaulle, and Von Choltitz saved the City of Light / Jean Edward Smith. Description: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. | New York : Simon & Schuster, 2019. | “Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover.” | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018036260| ISBN 9781501164927 | ISBN 1501164929 | ISBN 9781501164941 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Paris (France)--History--1940-1944. | France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945. | World War, 1939-1945--France--Paris. Classification: LCC D762.P3 S65 2019 | DDC 940.54/214361--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018036260
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