The Second World War (96 page)

Amann, Max 21

amphibious warfare 472-3

Andrews, Lieutenant-Colonel L.W. 136-7

Anschluss
31

Antonescu, General Ion 302, 396, 425

Antonov, General A.I. 440

Anvil, Operation 297, 300-1, 315-16

Aosta, Duke of 266-9

appeasement policy 31-2

Ardennes offensive 365-72

armies 3-8, 11-16

arms 8, 14-15, 482-3

Germany 172-3

technology 334-6

Armstrong, J.A. 413

Arnim, General Jürgen von 282-4

Atlantic, Battle of 83-95

Atlantic Charter 459

Atlantic Wall 308-10

atomic weapons 482, 486-7

Auchinleck, Field Marshal Claude 259, 275-7

Aung San 216-17

Austria, annexation of 31

Autumn Mist, Operation 367-72

Avalanche, Opertion 291-4

B-Dienst
87, 90, 419-20

Ba Maw 231

Badoglio, General Pietro 290-1

Bagramyan, Marshal Ivan 431

Bagration, Operation 326, 339, 401-4, 425

Balck, General Hermann 430

Baldwin, Stanley 73, 349

Balkans 301-6, 425-31

invasion of 114-29, 142

see also countries by name

ballistic missiles 484-7

Barbarossa 141-69

decision 108-13, 118, 141-2

Moscow 157-61, 166-8

and Red Army 142-8

Stalin’s reaction 148-54

winter 161-6

Barratt, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur 55

Battle of Britain 73-81

Bayerlein, General Fritz 328

Beaufre, General André 60

Bedell Smith, General Walter 297

Belgium 49, 52, 56-8, 59-60, 64, 233

Bell, Bishop of Chichester 361

Belotto, Bernardo 493

Beneš, Eduard 31-2

Bennett, Ralph 422

Bergonzoli, General Annibale 119

Beria, Lavrenty 154, 380

Berlin 493

bombing of 357

siege of 436-47

Soviet advance 431-5

Soviet occupation 495-6

Bessemer, Henry 8

Bidwell, S. 305

Billotte, General Gaston 50, 65

Bismarck
173

Bismarck Sea 244-5

Blaskowitz, General Johannes 344, 370

Bletchley Park, Code and Cipher School 88, 132-3, 419

Blitzkrieg
45-72

US style 339, 341

in USSR 339

Blomberg, Field Marshal Werner von 31

‘Blue’ plan 180-3

Bluecoat, Operation 337

Blumentritt, General Günther 59, 311, 320

Blunt, Anthony 417

bocage
campaign 325-30

Bock, Field Marshal Fedor von 49-50, 66, 101, 104, 106, 110, 150, 151, 154, 158-63, 166-7, 168, 180-3, 383

Bolero, Operation 261

bomb, atomic 482, 487

bombing, strategic 75, 346-61, 484

Bor-Komorowski, General Tadeusz 337

Boris, King of Bulgaria 118, 302, 425

Bormann, Martin 101, 433, 445, 492

Bose, Subhas Chandra 231, 464

Bradley, General Omar 325, 332, 336, 338, 364, 369

Bramall, Lieutenant Edwin 318

Brauchitsch, Field Marshal Walther von 45-8, 64, 65, 101, 110, 142, 158, 169

Braun, Eva 443, 444

Braun, Werner von 484-6

Brest-Litovsk 151

British Expeditionary Force (BEF) 46, 52, 58, 65-7

Brooke, Field Marshal Sir Alan 53, 66, 259, 260, 277, 312-13, 382

Brooke-Popham, Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert 212

Broz, Josip
see
Tito Bruce, Captain Henry 319

Buckner, General Simon Bolivar 477

Budenny, Marshal Semyon 143-4, 154-5, 186

Bulgaria 107, 118, 120-1, 302, 425

Burgess, Guy 417

Burma 94, 216-18, 231-2, 462-6, 471

Burns, James MacGregor 455-8

Busch, Field Marshal Ernst von 402

Busse, General Theodor 442

Butcher, Commander 318

Butt Report 351

Byron, George Gordon, Lord 118, 410

Caen 323-5, 327

Caprilli, Captain 12

Carlyle, Thomas 15

Cartwheel, Operation 244-51

Casablanca Conference 244, 262-4, 282, 354-5

Case Red’ 65

Case Yellow’ 46-8

Cassino, Battle of 295, 296, 298-9

casualties 493-5

cavitron valve 484

Chamberlain, Neville 31-2, 64

Chang Chung-hui 230

Chapman, Professor Guy 56

Chennault, General Claire 462, 466

Cherbourg 325-6

Cherwell, Lord (Professor Frederick Lindemann) 351

Chetniks 126, 414-15

Chiang Kai-shek 199-202, 217, 223, 459, 461, 462, 471, 491

China 94, 459

armies 462-3

and Burma 217

civil war 491

and Japan 199-202, 232, 461-4, 471, 490-1

supplies 201, 462-3

Choltitz, General Dietrich von 344

Christian, Gerda 444

Christie, Walter 146, 334, 473

Chuikov, General Vasili 146, 187-9, 192, 440, 441, 445-6

Churchill, Winston Spencer

and A-bomb 482

and army command 259-60, 277

and Atlantic Charter 459

on Clark 300

and Crete 136, 138

and Egypt 120

and Ethiopia 269

and French strategy 55, 65, 69-70

on Freyberg 131

ideology 407

and intelligence 417-22

and invasion of Italy 290-1, 306

and Japanese entry into war 197, 209-11, 258

and Overlord 313, 328, 382

and Pacific war 247

and Poland 459-60, 495

and resistance 405-7

and Roosevelt 257-8, 455-6, 459

and Stalin 147-8, 185-6, 258, 262, 304, 429, 495

and strategic bombing 351-2

strategy 258-64

and supplies 83

and Tobruk 276-7

and US entry into war 258

war aims 454

and Yugoslavia 123

ciphers 87-9, 132-3, 417-23

Citadel, Operation 288, 387-91

Clark, General Mark 281, 293, 294, 296-300, 305-6

Clausewitz, Karl von 423, 467

codes
see
ciphers

Collier, Basil 214

Collins, General Joe 328

Cologne, ‘Thousand Bomber’ raid 354

concentration camps 237-9

conscription 11-14

Coral Sea, Battle of 224-6

Corap, General André 58, 60, 62

Coventry 422

Crete 106, 129-40, 421

Creveld, Professor Martin van 115, 127

Crimea 159-60, 161, 180-3

Cripps, Stafford 147

Cunningham, General Alan 259, 267-9, 275

Cunningham, Admiral Sir Andrew 273

Czechoslovakia 31-2, 409, 427-8, 495-6

Daladier, Edouard 31-2

Dalton, Hugh 405

Darlan, Admiral Jean Francois 281

de Gaulle, General Charles 51, 55, 63, 65, 67, 70, 269-72, 332, 344-5, 411

Degrelle, Léon 437-8, 442

Denmark 37-8, 234

Dentz, General Henri 270-1

Devers, General Jacob 422

Dietl, General Eduard 38, 402

Dietrich, General Sepp 127, 341, 367

Dill, General Sir John 122

Dollmann, General Friedrich 326

Dönitz, Admiral Karl 84-7, 90-3, 175, 441, 443, 447

Donovan, Colonel William 123

Doolittle, Colonel James 223-4, 358-9

Doorman, Admiral Karel 214-16

Dornberger, Walter 484-5

Douhet, Giulio 74, 348, 483

Doumenc, General Aimé 54, 60

Dowding, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh 80

Dragoon, Operation 297, 300-1, 315-16

Dresden 360, 493

Dulles, Alan 482

Dunkirk 66-7

Dynamo, Operation 66

Eagle, Operation 78

Eaker, General Ira C. 298-9, 355

East Indies 214-15, 250-51

Eberbach, General Hans 340

Ebert, Friedrich 19

economies, national 82-3, 173-8

see also
production

Eden, Anthony 66, 259, 267

Edwards, Paul 178

Egypt 104-5, 115, 119

Eichelberger, General Robert 244

Eichen, Lieutenant Sidney 325

Einstein, Albert 487

Eisenhower, General Dwight D. 262-4, 281-2, 291, 313-15, 338, 344, 364, 369, 438-9

Ellis, Major Earl 473

Engels, Friedrich 3, 6

Enigma cipher machine 88, 132-3, 419, 420

Erickson, Professor John 148, 156, 165, 170, 379, 385, 389-91, 404, 433-4, 442-3, 446

espionage 417-18

Ethiopia 120, 266-70, 344

Evans-Pritchard, Edward 268

Falaise Gap, Battle of 331-45

Falkenhorst, General Nikolaus von 37

Final Solution’ 238-9

Finland 35-6, 108, 169, 401-2, 425-6

Fischer, Fritz 1

Fletcher, Admiral Frank John 225

Flower, Desmond 80

Flowers, Thomas 420

food 6-7, 82-3

Foote, Alexander 148

Formosa 474

Fortitude, Operation 311

France

army 51, 53-4

Blitzkrieg
45-72

casualties 493

invasion 61-72

occupation 233-4, 310

resistance 406

surrender 70-2

Franco, General Francisco 105

Frank, General 492

Frederick II, King of Prussia (the Great) 125, 213, 453

Free French forces 269-71, 276, 411

Freikorps
18-22

Fretter-Pico, General Maximilian 430

Freud, Sigmund 11

Freyberg, Major-General Bernard 131, 133, 136, 138-9, 298, 421-2

Frick, Wilhelm 491

Friedeburg, General Hans von 447

Friesner, General Johannes 303

Frisches Haff 494

Fritsch, General Werner von 31

‘Fritz’ plan 108-9

Fromm, General Friedrich 365

Fuchs, Klaus 487

Fuller, Major-General J.F.C. 332

Galland, Lieutenant General Adolf 78, 81

Gamelin, General Maurice 52-5, 59, 62, 64, 332

Gavin, General James 325

Gehlen, Colonel Reinhard 399, 401

Genda, Minoru 207, 210

George VI, King of Great Britain 72

Georges, General Alphonse Joseph 54-5, 59, 60, 63, 65

Gericke, Captain Walter 135, 139

Germany

aircraft 50-1, 76-7, 129

arms 172-3

army 54, 141-2

casualties 494-5

economy and production 82-3, 173, 178, 233-7

marshalate 101-3

post-war 493-5

rockets 484-7

tanks 51, 176, 333-4, 335, 340-1

U-boats 83-95

Gilbert Islands 212, 248

Giraud, General Henri 58, 281

Goebbels, Josef 192, 329, 357, 365, 384, 385, 445, 453

Goering, Hermann 25, 67, 75, 77-9, 80, 101, 111, 130, 383, 441, 443, 491

Golikov, Marshal F.I. 387

Goodwood, Operation 327, 337

Gordov, V.N. 186

Gort, Field Marshal John 54-5, 66-7

Graf Spee
37, 84

Graham, D. 305

Gransard, General P.P.J. 61

Graziani, Marshal Rodolfo 119, 272-3, 293

Greece 106, 115-18, 120-2, 126-8, 428-9, 490, 492

Guadalcanal 241-3

Guam 211

Guariglia, Raffaele 291

Guderian, General Heinz 45, 48, 51, 63-5, 110, 150-1, 158-68, 176, 331, 335, 383-9, 424, 440

Guzzoni, Alfredo 289-90

Hacha, Emil 32

Haganah 490

Hague Convention 152

Haile Selassie, Emperor 267-9

Halder, General Franz 46-9, 64, 65, 70, 108-10, 124, 151, 157-60, 165, 180, 184-5

Halifax, Lord 53

Halsey, Admiral William 224, 244, 246-7, 466, 469-70

Hamburg 355-6, 361

Harding, General John 299

Harpe, General Josef 432

Harris, Air Chief Marshal Arthur 346-8, 352-3, 355-7, 358, 361

Hart, Admiral Thomas 218-19

Hassell, Ulrich von 57

Hausser, General Paul 341

Hess, Rudolf 21, 25, 141, 148

Heusinger, Colonel Adolf 159

Heydrich, Reinhardt 239, 409, 428

Heydte, Baron von der 135

Higgings Company of New Orleans 473

Himmler, Heinrich 30, 235-9, 365, 404, 424, 441, 443, 492

Hindenburg, General Paul von 27, 434

Hinsley, Professor Harold 419

Hirohito, Emperor 204, 488

Hiroshima 482, 487

Hitler, Adolf

and Allied invasion 307-16, 325-6, 335-6, 340-3, 362-3

and Allied invasion of Italy 288-92

Anschluss
31

and appeasement 31-2

Ardennes campaign 365-8, 377

army command 54, 259, 379, 458

and Barbarossa 142, 152, 157-9, 166, 168-9, 176

and Battle of Britain 75-9, 80-1

bomb plot against 329-30

and Bulgaria 120

and ‘Case Red’ 65

and ‘Case Yellow’ 46-8, 55

and concentration camps 237

and Crete 129, 139

and Czechoslovakia 31-2

death 444

and Dietl 38-9

and
Freikorps
21-2

French defeat 71

and the generals 28-34

and
Graf Spee
37

and Greece 105-6, 115-18, 121

and Hungary 427, 430

ideology 21-2, 82, 112-113, 407-8, 453-4

and intelligence 417

and Kursk 387-91, 393-9, 401-4

and Manstein Plan 48-9, 59, 64

and Mussolini 288, 408

Nazi revolution 26-8

and North Africa 105, 120, 274, 278, 281-4, 383

and Plan ‘Blue’ 180-5

and Poland 32-5

Putsch
23-6

and rockets 485-6

and Scandinavia 36-9

Soviet offensive on Berlin 431-3, 436-7, 440-41

and Stalingrad 189-92, 383-5

and strategic bombing 350

and tanks 335, 340-2

and U-boats 85

and USA 197, 453-4

and USSR 103-4, 107-13

and
Volksgrenadiers
424

and war supplies 172-3

and Yugoslavia 122-7

Ho Chi Minh 491

Hodges, General 370

Hoepner, General Erich 51, 162-4, 165, 168

Homma, General Masaharu 219

Hong Kong 211-12

Hopkins, Harry 261, 457

Horthy, Admiral 124, 302, 426-27

Hoth, General Hermann 51, 151, 158, 164, 165, 182-3, 392

Hudson, Captain D.T. 413