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Berle, Adolf, 184

Berlin: bombed, 475, 478–9, 484–5, 492; anti-aircraft defences, 480; zoo bombed, 489; Russians reach, 595, 613; Eisenhower leaves to Russians, 611, 612; Zhukov’s assault on, 621–5; Red Army rape and destruction in, 627–8, 629

Bevan, Aneurin, 335

Beveridge Report (1942), 335

Bévésiers (French submarine), 125

Billotte, Gen. Gaston, 62

biological warfare: by Japanese, 428, 672

Bir Hacheim, Libya, 136

Birbahadur, Naik, 457

Bird, Lt. Tom, 110

Bismarck Sea, Battle of the (March 1943), 267

Black, Lt. Earlyn, 202

Blamey, Gen. Sir Thomas, 119

Blanchard, Gen. Georges, 57, 62, 63

Bleichman, Ephrahim, 4, 12, 522

Bletchley Park: decrypting and intelligence operations, xix, 367–9, 663; and U-boat radio traffic, 283; women at, 353

blitzkrieg: doctrine of, 177

Blois-Brooke, Lt.Cdr. Michael, 650

Blomberg, Field Marshal Werner von, 105

Blum, John Morton, 199

Blumenson, Martin, 186, 594

Blumentritt, Lt.Gen. Gunther, 300

Blundell, Cdr. George, 295, 297

Blunt, Maggie Joy, 39–40

Blunt, Roscoe, 333

Bock, Field Marshal Fedor von, 148, 162, 303

Boddy, Lt. John, 289

Bogenhardt, Tassilo von, 374, 397, 402

Bolzano (Italian cruiser), 297

bomb disposal, 96–7

Bond, Petty Officer Roger, 564

Bondi, Capt. (German liaison officer to Italians), 374

Bone, Ted, 470, 478

Bonnet, Georges, 16

Borkovsky, Dieter, 619

Bormann, Martin, 488

Borneo, 645

Borthwick, Capt. Alastair, 332

Bose, Lt. A.M., 417

Bose, Subhas Chandra, 421–2

Boshell, Maj. Frankie, 562

Bougainville, 564

Bowlby, Lt. Alex, 462, 595

Bradley, Gen. Omar: troops’ indifference to war, 230; reputation, 380; campaign in Normandy, 554–5; hatred of Montgomery, 584

Bradshaw, Sgt. Sam, 131

Bramm, Peter, 161

Brandt, Lt. Karl-Friedrich, 387

Branson, Clive, 420

Brantly, Lt. Hattie, 202

Brauchitsch, Field Marshal Walther von, 76, 144, 175

Braun, Eva, 626

Brazil: joins Allies, 398

Brennan, Jack, 477–8

Brereton, Gen. Lewis, 232

Brest: submarine pens, 280

Brewster, Kingman, 186

Brickell, Russell, 120

Briggs, Laura, 339

Bristowe, Cdr. Bobby, 125

Britain: declares war on Germany, 1, 8–11; guarantees to Poland, 2–3; fails to support Poland, 15–16; conditions in ‘phoney war’, 27–9, 40; children evacuated, 28; accidents and road deaths in blackout, 29; civil defence, 29; differences with France, 41, 50, 62–3; troops in Norway campaign, 48–9; evacuates Norway, 50; inadequacy of army, 60–1; evacuated from France, 64–7; casualties in 1940 campaign in France, 72; German air assault on, 79, 81, 92–3; invasion threat to, 80, 90–1; scientific and technological superiority, 81–2; civilian casualties from air attacks, 93, 480; people’s views of war, 102–3; military prestige sinks, 128; communities’ behaviour in fall of Malaya, 210; soldiers’ irresolution, 215, 364; as aircraft and naval base, 269; dependence on sea supplies, 269, 275; merchant shipping losses, 284; wartime annual imports, 284; dockworkers’ inefficiency, 286; delegation to Moscow (1942), 299; total casualties, 324–5, 670; home front conditions, 342–5; food rations, 347; output of consumer goods declines, 347; women workers, 352–3; armaments production falls, 362; US troops in, 363; intelligence sharing with USA, 368; internment of dissenters and aliens, 400; opposes early landing in France, 442; artillery excellence, 445; inferior army wireless communications, 446; air bases, 491; anti-Semitism, 515–16; hesitancy over invasion of Normandy, 531; troops’ reluctance over invasion of Europe, 531–2; infantry weapons, 539–40; land war against Japanese, 559; manpower shortage in advance through Europe, 585, 588; developments on atomic bomb, 647; returned prisoners-of-war, 655–6; enters war as act of principle, 660; low human cost of war, 662–3; unmilitary behaviour, 662; defiance, 663; post-war loss of power, 663

British Empire: contribution to war effort, 408–9; administration, 421

British Expeditionary Force (BEF): in France, 25; and German advance, 53–4; evacuation from France, 63–7,