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Authors: Rick Atkinson

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escape of

execution of

Jews and

meets with Hitler at Feltre

Mussolini Canal

mustard gas

 

Naples

capture of

history of

soldiers’ I&I and

staging for
SHINGLE
at

supplies and shipping and

Vesuvius eruption and

Napoleon

NATO

Nauset
, U.S.S.

Nelson, Admiral Lord

Nelson
, H.M.S.

Nero

Nettuno

Neue Deutschland
(newspaper)

New Guinea

Newsweek

New York Times

New Zealand 2nd Division

New Zealand Corps “Spadger Force”

Nicholas, St. 270

Nicias

Nicolson, Nigel

Nicosia

Niscemi

Normandy invasion.
See also
OVERLORD

Norstad, Brig. Gen. Lauris

North Africa

North African campaign

 

Oakley, K. G.

O’Daniel, Maj. Gen. John W. “Iron Mike”

Odysseus

Offa

Office of Strategic Services (OSS)

Office of War Information

oil

Oliver, Comm. G. N.

Olson, Sgt. Truman

Omaha beach

Oneskunk, Sampson P.

On War
(Clausewitz)

Operations Instructions No. 34 “The Battle for Rome” (Alexander)

Oran

Oresteia
(Aeschylus)

Orsogna

Ortona

Ostrogoths

Otranto
(former liner)

OVERLORD

Ovid

Owen, Wilfred

 

Pachino Peninsula

Pacific theater

Pact of Steel

Padiglione Woods

Padilla, Ranger

Paestum

Paige, Satchel

Paine, Thomas

Palermo

Palestinian 1st Camouflage Company

Palestrina

Pantano Ditch

Pantelleria island

Parks, Corp. John Bob

Passchendaele, battle of

Passero, Cape

Patton, Beatrice

Patton, Gen. George S., Jr.

Alexander and

Allen and Roosevelt relieved of command by

Anzio and

AVALANCHE
and

background and personality of

Biscari massacre and

Clark and

drive to Messina and

drive to Palermo and

fame of

FDR gives command in
OVERLORD

honors

HUSKY
and

Ike and

Keyes and

leadership style of

North Africa and

in Sicily, during winter campaign

slapping incident and

Ted Roosevelt and

Paul, St. 46

Pearson, Drew

Peloponnesian War

penicillin

Peninsular Base Section

Penney, Maj. Gen. William R. C.

Perret, Geoffrey

Perry, Ranger

Persano

Pershing, General

Petacci, Clara

Petard
, H.M.S.

Peter, St.

Petrarch

Petrella Massif

Phantom Ridge

Philadelphia
, U.S.S.

Philippines

Pilgrim’s Progress
(Bunyan)

Pindar

Pisa

Pius XII, Pope

Plato

Pliny the Younger

Plunkett
, U.S.S.

Plutarch

Point 202

Point 569

Point 593 (Monte Calvario)

Poland

Polish 2nd Polish Armoured Brigade

Polish 3rd Carpathian Division

Polish 5th Kresowa Division

Polish 12th Podolski Lancers

Polish II Corps

Pompeii

Ponte Olivo airfield

Pontine Marshes

Porch, Douglas

Po River

Pound, Adm. Sir Dudley

Pozzuoli

“Preservation of Works of Art in Italy”

Pride and Prejudice
(Austen)

Priebke, Capt. Erich

Primosole Bridge

Princess Astrid
, H.M.S.

Princess Beatrix
, H.M.S.

Principles of War
(Clausewitz)

prisoners of war (POWs)

propaganda

prostitution

psychiatric casualties

PT-201

PT-216

Puffin (German army code)

Punic Wars

Punitive Expedition against Mexico (1916)

Pyle, Ernie

Pyle, Jerry

 

Quebec conference

Queen Mary
(ship)

Question Mark

 

Radio Algiers

Radio Berlin

Radio Rome

railroads

RAINCOAT
, Operation

Raleigh News and Observer

Rangeland Avenger, The
(Brand)

rapes

Raphael

Rapido River

assault

assault planned

Cassino and

DICKENS
and

DIADEM
and

inquiry 349

Rayburn, Sam

Red Army

Red Cross

Regensburg, battle of

Revelle, Capt. George H., Jr.

Reynolds, Quentin

Rhoads, Pvt. Billy C.

RICHARD
, Operation

Ridgway, Maj. Gen. Matthew B.

Rigoletto
(opera)

Roberts, Maj. Spanky

Robinson, Edwin Arlington

Robson, Lance Corp. Walter

Rockefeller, John D., Jr.

Rockefeller Foundation

Roma
(Italian battleship)

Romania

Rome

Allied bombing of

Anzio and

AVALANCHE
and

Clark’s obsession with

coup vs. Mussolini in

DIADEM
and Clark’s drive to capture

DIADEM
plan and

German occupation of

German retreat from

GIANT II
proposed drop in

HUSKY
and

Ike and

liberation of

as main objective

secret mission to, and Italian surrender

troop morale and

winter campaign and

Rome, ancient

Romine, Micky T.

Rommel, Gen. Erwin

Rommel, Lucie

Roosevelt, Anna

Roosevelt, Eleanor (wife of FDR)

Roosevelt, Eleanor (wife of Ted)

Roosevelt, Col. Elliott

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Anzio and

assessment of Italian campaign and

blacks in armed forces and

Cairo and Teheran conferences and

Casablanca conference and

Churchill and

Four Freedoms speech of

gas warfare and

Ike and
OVERLORD
and

ill health of

Italian overtures for peace and

liberation of Rome and

Mussolini and

OSS and

Patton and

postwar world envisioned by

Quebec conference and

Rome as objective and

TRIDENT
and

Roosevelt, Franklin, Jr.

Roosevelt, Brig. Gen. Theodore, Jr.

Rossini, Gioachino

Rostov

Rowan
, S.S.

Royal Ulsterman

Royle, P.

Rudolph Wurlitzer Company

Ruskin, John

Ryder, Maj. Gen. Charles W. “Doc”

 

Saar, bombing of

Sahara
(film)

St. David
(hospital ship)

Salerno.
See also
AVALANCHE

history of

landings in

Samuel Chase
, U.S.S.

Samuel J. Tilden
, S.S.

San Carlo Opera Company

Sangro River

San Pietro
(documentary)

San Pietro Infine

Santa Maria Infante

Sant’Angelo

Saracens

Sardinia

Saturday Evening Post

Sauer, Col. Paul

Savannah
, U.S.S.

Sayer, Capt. Edwin M.

Schaefer, Lt. Col. William H.

Schaffhausen, Switzerland, bombing of

Scharnhorst
(German battleship), sinking of

Schenectady Plan

“Schiller, Father”

Schlegel, Lt. Col. Julius

Schmalz, Gen. Wilhelm

Scholastica, St.

Schweinfurt, battle of

Scipio Africanus

Scoglitti

Scott, Sir Walter

SEALION
, Operation

SEATRAIN
, Operation

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Secret Service

Segan, Lt. William J.

Sele River corridor (
BRYAN
)

Seneca

Senger und Etterlin, Fridolin von

Sentinel
, U.S.S.

Seraph
, H.M.S. (submarine)

Sevareid, Eric

Sevastopol, battle of

SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force)

Shakespeare, William

Shakespeare
, H.M.S.

Shapiro, Lionel

Shaw, George Bernard

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Sherman, Gen. William T.

Sherman tanks

SHINGLE
.
See also
Anzio

Rapido attacks planned to precede

shipping

Shit Corner

Shoemaker’s Holiday, The
(film)

Shubrick
, U.S.S.

Shunstrom, Capt. Charles M.

Sicily.
See also
HUSKY

Allied occupation of, under Patton

Casablanca and decision to invade

code named
HORRIFIED

history and geography of

Hitler-Mussolini meeting on

invasion and capture of

Mussolini deposed during campaign in

Patton’s expectation of death in

plan for aftermath of

Sicily-Rome American Cemetery

Sieckenius, Gen. Rudolf

Sing as We Go
(film)

Skorzeny, Capt. Otto

Slessor, Air Marshal Sir John

Smith, Al

Smith, E. D.

Smith, Kate

Smith, Lt. Gen. Walter B. “Beetle”

Smuts, Jan

SNAFU, expansion of

Snakeshead Ridge

Snowden, Frank M.

Sobieski
(Polish liner)

Social Life of Monkeys and Apes, The
(Zucherman)

soldiers

Anzio stalemate and

battle fatigue or shell shock

impact of combat on psychology of

lessons of Italian campaign for

morale problems and

Naples I&I and

Pyle on

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., on

“Soldier’s Guide to Sicily, The”

Solomon Islands

Somaliland

Somervell, Gen. Brehon B.

Sousa, Capt. Benjamin Harrison

South African 6th Armoured Division

South African 12th Brigade

South African troops

Southern, George

Soviet Union (Russia)

Spain

Spanish Armada

Spartacus

Spencer, Air Commodore

spies

Sprague, John F.

Stalin, Joseph

Stalingrad, battle of

Stalker
, H.M.S.

Stark, Carole

Stark, Pvt. Arthur E. “Sticks”

Stars and Stripes

Steady
, U.S.S.

Steere, Lt. Comm. Richard C.

Steinbeck, John

Stendahl

Stevens, Lt. Will

Stevenson, Coke

Stewart, Jimmy

Stillwell, Lt. Gen. Joseph W.

Stimson, Henry L.

Stoler, Mark A.

Stone, Phillip H.

Story of G.I. Joe, The
(film)

Stovall, Col. Oran C.

Stradling, John S.

Strange Cargo
(film)

STRANGLE
air campaign

Strathnaver
, H.M.S.

Strong, Brig. Kenneth W.E.

Suez Canal

Sulzberger, C. L.

Summersby, Kathleen Helen “Kay”

supplies and logistics

Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean

Sway
, U.S.S.

Switzerland, bombing of

Syracuse

 

Tabacchificio Fioche

Tacitus

Talamba
(hospital ship)

Tangiers

Taylor, Brig Gen. Maxwell D.

Téboura, battle of

Tedder, Air Marshal Arthur

Teheran conference

Templer, Maj. Gen. G.W.R.

Testbank
(freighter)

This Is the Army
(musical)

Thomas, St.

Thucydides

Tidwell, Pvt. Riley

Tillman
, U.S.S.

Time

Times
(London)

Tintoretto

Titian

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