Read The Day We Went to War Online
Authors: Terry Charman
Tags: #History, #Europe, #Great Britain, #Military, #World War II, #Ireland
evacuation of works of art
(i)
lunchtime concerts
(i)
illus.,
(ii)
National Register
(i)
,
(ii)
National Socialist League (Britain)
(i)
Naujocks, Alfred
(i)
,
(ii)
naval war
(i)
and
Admiral Graf Spee
(i)
,
(ii)
illus.
Christmas 1939
(i)
Nazi-Soviet pact
see
German-Soviet pact
Netherlands
(i)
waiting for war
(i)
New Year’s Eve 1939
(i)
New Zealand
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
Newall, Air Chief Marshal Sir Cyril
(i)
illus.,
(ii)
Nicolson, Harold
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
Niven, David
(i)
Noël, Leon
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
Novello, Ivor
(i)
‘Old Fighters’
(i)
Oliver, Sarah
(i)
Oliver, Vic
(i)
,
(ii)
Ouvry, Lieutenant Commander John D G
(i)
illus.
Paasikivi, J K
(i)
Pacelli, Cardinal Eugenio
see
Pius XII, Pope (Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli)
pacifists and peace campaigners
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
Pact of Steel (1939)
(i)
,
(ii)
Papen, Franz von
(i)
,
(ii)
Parker, Ross
(i)
Payne-Best, Captain Sigismund
(i)
illus.
kidnapping of
(i)
peace initiatives
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
Peace Statement (FDR)
(i)
People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA)
(i)
Petain, Marshal Philippe, ‘Hero of Verdun’
(i)
Phipps, Sir Eric
(i)
,
(ii)
‘Phoney War’
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
Picture Post
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,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)
,
(xiii)
,
(xiv)
,
(xv)
,
(xvi)
,
(xvii)
,
(xviii)
Pitschen (Poland)
(i)
Pius XII, Pope (Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
Poland
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
see also
German-Soviet pact; invasion of Poland (‘Case White’)
armed forces
(i)
,
(ii)
Britain’s guarantee
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
brutality of occupation
(i)
Christmas 1939
(i)
entreaties to French
(i)
fall
(i)
and German aggression
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
German ambassador to
(i)
government-in-exile
(i)
Hitler’s sixteen proposals
(i)
military strength
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
pre-war mood
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
requests RAF support
(i)
resistance
(i)
Soviet threat
(i)
surrounded
(i)
warning to Gemany
(i)
Polish Corridor
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
falls to Germans
(i)
Polish Post Office (Danzig)
(i)
Polish-German Agreement
(i)
Poniatowski, Prince Joseph
(i)
Pope, Alex
(i)
Post, Evert
(i)
Pottinger, Captain Charles
(i)
Pound, Admiral Sir Dudley
(i)
illus.,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
Present Laughter
(1939)
(i)
Priday, Corporal Thomas
(i)
Prien, Kapitänleutnant Gunther
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
illus.
propaganda
see also
Royal Air Force
British
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
French
(i)
,
(ii)
German
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
illus.,
(viii)
illus.,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)
(
see also
Joyce, William (Lord Haw-Haw))
provincial theatres
(i)
Prueller, Wilhelm: war diaries
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
Raczynski, Edward
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
Raeder, Admiral Erich
(i)
,
(ii)
illus.
Raleigh, John ‘Jack’ McCutcheon
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
rationing: food and petrol
(i)
Rawalpindi,
HMS (armed merchant cruiser)
(i)
illus.
Red Army
(i)
illus.,
(ii)
refugees
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
see also
evacuation
Reichenau, General Walther
(i)
Reichstag
(i)
,
(ii)
illus.
Remembrance Day, 1939
(i)
Rex, Jessie
(i)
,
(ii)
Reynaud, Paul
(i)
,
(ii)
Ribbentrop, Joachim von
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
illus.,
(vi)
illus.,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)
,
(xiii)
,
(xiv)
,
(xv)
,
(xvi)
,
(xvii)
,
(xviii)
,
(xix)
,
(xx)
,
(xxi)
,
(xxii)
,
(xxiii)
,
(xxiv)
,
(xxv)
River Plate, Battle of
(i)
RMS Athlone Castle
(i)
Roberts, Cecil
(i)
,
(ii)
Roosevelt, Franklin D (FDR)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
Rothenstein, John
(i)
,
(ii)
Roumania
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
Royal Air Force
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
illus.,
(iv)
,
(v)
assault on German Fleet
(i)
commencement of hostilities
(i)
,
(ii)
leaflet drops over Germany
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
illus.
Royal Navy
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
commencement of hostilities
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
hits and losses
(i)
Royal Oak,
HMS (battleship)
(i)
,
(ii)
‘Run, Rabbit, Run’
(i)
,
(ii)
Russell, John
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
Russell, William
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
Russia-German Pact
see
German-Soviet pact
‘Saar Offensive’
(i)
,
(ii)
illus.
Savage, Michael Joseph
(i)
,
(ii)
Scarles, Sir Edward
(i)
Schellenberg, Walter
(i)
Schleswig-Holstein
(battleship)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
Schmidt, Dr Paul
(i)
illus.,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
Schuhart, Kapitänleutnant Otto
(i)
,
(ii)
illus.
Schulenberg, Friedrich-Werner von der
(i)
Schultz, Sigrid
(i)
,
(ii)
2nd September 1939
(i)
Seeds, Sir William
(i)
,
(ii)
Sewell, J F
(i)
,
(ii)
Shape of Things to Come, The
(H G Wells)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
Shaw, George Bernard
(i)
Shipyard Sally
(i)
,
(ii)
Shirer, William
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
Shkvartsev, Alexander
(i)
,
(ii)
illus.
Sikorski, General Wladyslaw
(i)
Simon, Sir John
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
illus.,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
Sinclair, Sir Archibald
(i)
,
(ii)
Slovakia
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
see also
Czecho-Slovakia
Smigly-Rydz, Marshal
(i)
,
(ii)
Smuts, General Jan Christian
(i)
,
(ii)
South Africa, Union of
(i)
Southern Cross
(yacht)
(i)
,
(ii)
Soviet-Japanese War (1939)
(i)
Spain
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
Spanish Civil War
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
Spears, Sir Edward
(i)
,
(ii)
Speed, Florence: war diaries
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
Speer, Albert
(i)
Spender, Stephen
(i)
Spier, Eugen
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)