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— The War at Sea Sidgwick & Jackson 1996

Thorne, Christopher The Issue of War Oxford 1985

— Allies of a Kind Hamish Hamilton 1978

Tooze, Adam The Wages of Destruction Penguin 2007

Tout, Ken Tank!: Forty Hours of Battle London 1985

Towards Freedom: Documents on the Movement for Independence in India 1940 pt. 1 OUP 1978

Trevelyan, Raleigh Rome ’44 Viking 1982

Tsuji, Col. Masanobu Japan’s Greatest Victory, Britain’s Worst Defeat Spellmount 1997

Turner, E.S. The Phoney War Michael Joseph 1961

Tute, Warren The Reluctant Enemies Collins 1990

Tyson, Geoffrey Forgotten Frontier Calcutta 1945

Umezu, Yoshijiro ‘Facing the Decisive Battle’ Kaikosha Kiji 1945

Ungvary, Krisztian Battle for Budapest Tauris 2003

Vallicella, Vittorio Diario di Guerra da El Alamein alla tragica ritirata 1942–1943 Edizioni Arterigere 2009

Vaz Ezdani, Yvonne ed. Songs of the Survivors Noronha Goa 2007

Vigor, P.H. Soviet Blitzkrieg Theory Macmillan 1984

Walters, Anne-Marie Moondrop to Gascony MPG Books 2009

Waugh, Evelyn Officers and Gentlemen Chapman & Hall 1955

— Unconditional Surrender Chapman & Hall 1961

— Diaries ed. Michael Davie Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1976

Weinburg, Gerhard A World at Arms Cambridge 1994

Weinstein, Alfred Barbed Wire Surgeon Macmillan 1947

Wellum, Geoffrey First Light Penguin 2002

Westphal, Siegfried ed. The Fatal Decisions Michael Joseph 1952

White, Peter With the Jocks Sutton 2001

White, Theodore & Jacoby, Annalee Thunder Out of China Gollancz 1947

Willkie, Wendell One World New York 1942

Wilmot, Chester The Struggle for Europe Wordsworth 1997

Wilson, Kevin Journey’s End Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2010

Wolff-Monckeburg, Mathilde On the Other Side ed. Ruth Evans Pan 1979

Woodman, Richard The Real Cruel Sea John Murray 2004

— Arctic Convoys John Murray 2001

— Malta Convoys John Murray 2000

Wooldridge, E.T. ed. Carrier Warfare in the Pacific Smithsonian 1993

Zhadobin, A.T. et al. eds Ognennaya duga: Kurskaya bitva glazami Lubyanki [Arc of Fire: The Battle of Kursk as Seen Through the Eyes of the Lubyanka] Moscow 2003

Zweig, Stefan, The World of Yesterday Pushkin Press 2010

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Aachen, 583

Abbott, Lt. Stephen, 214

Abe, Vice-Adm. Hiroake, 261

Abraham, W.E., 221

Abramov, Sasha, 172

Abrial, Adm. Jean-Marie, 63

Abyssinia, 110–11, 113

Ackerley, Joe Randolph, 344

Addison, Air Vice-Marshal Edward, 358

Addison, Edward, 473

Africa: British colonies at outbreak of war, 10; Britain raises recruits in, 409–12

Afrika Korps, 111, 114–15, 129–30, 365–6, 370, 375, 377

airborne forces, 326

airborne operations: German in Crete, 123; at Arnhem, 580–1; in Rhine crossing, 611

aircraft carriers: in Battle of Philippine Sea (1944), 565–7

Akhmedov, Capt. Ismael, 32

Alam Halfa, 366

Alamein see El Alamein

Albania, 109, 115–17, 188, 406

Albrecht, US Marine Karl, 436

Aleutians: Japanese attack on, 245

Alexander, Lt.Gen. Sir Harold (later 1st Earl): commands in France (1940), 63; takes command in Burma, 222, 227; meets Stilwell, 223; transferred to Middle East, 227; appointed Middle East C. in C., 366; Churchill’s demands on, 369; on US Army weakness in North Africa, 378; as Eisenhower’s deputy, 378; reputation in North Africa, 380; conduct of Sicily campaign, 447, 449–50; overrules Clark at Salerno, 451; and advance on Rome, 455; calls on Italian partisans to rise against Germans, 459; considers death penalty for deserters, 462–3; on quality of German soldiers in Italy, 529; successful attack in Italy, 529

Alexandria: as British naval base, 107; French squadron interned at, 125; Royal Navy ships attacked by Italian human torpedoes, 294; decoy Malta convoy sails from, 295

al-Husayni, Mohammad Amin, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, 107, 405

Ali, Rashid, 124

Allain, Jehan,