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