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All Hell Let Loose_ The World at War 1939-1945 - Max Hastings [449]

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72–3; material losses in France, 67

Brontman, Lazar, 170, 302–3, 354, 381, 392–3, 526–7

Brooke, Gen. Alan (later Viscount Alanbrooke): on demoralised French army, 27; in Cairo with Churchill, 366; and slow Allied advance in Italy, 455, 529; hesitancy over invasion of Europe, 531; and British disposition in advance through Europe, 588; on army’s limitations, 663; achievements, 666

Brooke-Popham, Sir Robert, 202, 219

Broome, Capt. Jack, 291, 295

Brothers, Pete, 84, 86

Brown, Capt. Ramsay, 296, 298

Browning, Christopher, 520–2

Browning, Lt.Gen. Frederick (‘Boy’), 581

Bruneval, near Le Havre, 325–6

Bruns, Col. Walter, 508

Brush, Herbert, 95

Brussels: liberated (1944), 557

Bucharest: liberated, 658

Buckingham Palace: bombed, 101

Buckner, Gen. Simon Bolivar, 641, 644

Budapest: battle for and capture by Russians, 599–605

Budyonny, Marshal Semyon, 307

Bukov, Vasya, 312

Bulgaria: neutrality in Italian attack on Greece, 116; joins Axis, 118; Russians declare war on, 550

Bulge, Battle of the (winter 1944–5) see Ardennes

Burgett, Donald, 591

Burgoyne, Gen. John, 494

Burke, Capt. Arleigh, USN, 566

Burleigh, Michael: Moral Combat, xx, 81

Burma: Japanese invade and occupy, 218–20, 223–4, 434; British administration and attitudes, 219–20; Chinese military intervention in, 223–4; British losses in, 224; Indians in, 225–6; refugees, 225; pro-Japanese sentiments, 415; Indian airmen in, 418; British counter-strategy in, 433, 559; Wingate’s Chindits in, 434, 634; hostility to Japanese, 435, 500; Japanese declare independent, 435; Slim reconquers, 563, 633–4, 645, 664; post-war conditions, 659

Burma Defence Army, 225, 634–5

Burma Railway, 416

Burma Road (to China), 218, 222, 224

Burrough, Rear-Adm. Harold, 296–7

Busatti, Sgt. Franco, 457

Busch, Field Marshal Ernest, 546

Butler, John, 129–30

Butler, Signalman Richard, 271

Butler, Richard Austen, 226

Caen, Normandy, 537, 539, 554–5

Cairo: wartime conditions, 134; Rommel threatens, 306, 365

Calcutta: death rate in 1943 famine, 424

Calvocoressi, Peter, Guy Wint and John Pritchard: Total War, xix

CAM ships (armed merchantmen), 288

Campbell, Sir Ronald, 73

Canada: provides convoy escorts, 276, 283; troops in Dieppe raid, 326; tolerant attitude to Germans, 400; military service, 413–14; French Canadian hostility to war, 414; troops in invasion of Italy, 451; troops in Normandy battle, 555; troops delayed in Scheldt estuary, 584; soldiers’ behaviour in Europe, 587; casualties, 670

Canaris, Adm. Wilhelm, 113

Canberra, HMAS (cruiser), 256–7

Capano, John, 401

Carnera, Primo, 111

Caroline Islands, 439

Carton de Wiart, Maj.Gen. Adrian, 7, 22, 49–50

Cartwright, Jim, 534

Carullo, Anthony, 402

Caruso, Lt. Patrick, 636

Casablanca Conference (1943), 432, 442, 484

Cash-and-Carry Bill (US, 1939), 185

Castlerosse, Valentine Edward Charles Browne, Viscount, 39

Catroux, Gen. Georges, 128

Caucasus: Germans drive for oilfields, 302–3, 306

Cazalet, Capt. Peter, 210

Chaiko, Igor, 313

Chamberlain, Neville: announces declaration of war, 9; and British guarantees to Poland, 15; reluctance to wage war, 17; non-intervention in Finnish winter war, 35; opposes violation of Norwegian neutrality, 39; and conduct of Norway campaign, 49–51; resigns premiership, 52–3; hopes for US involvement in war, 186

Channel Islands (British), 340, 575

Chappell, William, 330

Charlemagne Division (French Waffen SS), 625–6

Charlton, George, 287

Chauvel, Jean, 69

Cheek, Tom, 250

Chennault, Claire, 221

Cherkassy, 395

Chetniks (Yugoslavia), 465–8

Chevalier-Paul (French super-destroyer), 127

Chiang Kai-shek, 191, 193, 222–3, 427–9, 560, 634

Childers, Lloyd, 249

Chin Kee On, 499

Chin Peng, 415

China: Japanese war in, xvi, 191–2, 427, 429, 432, 634; and Burma Road, 218, 222; offers military aid in Burma, 222–3; Japanese troops diverted to, 260, 428; food shortages, 349; internal divisions and conflict, 427–8; supply routes, 427; Japanese biological experiments in, 428–9; wartime casualties, 428–9, 669; ‘comfort women’ for Japanese, 429–31; Japanese behaviour in, 429–32; in reconquest

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