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Ladoga, Lake: ice highway to Leningrad, 173

Lafontaine, Gen. Henri Jean, 56

Lambert, Derek, 28, 347

landing craft: designed and built, 361–2

Langer, Rula, 1

Langkanke, Fritz, 176

Lapie, Capt. Pierre, 51

Lapp, Royce, 543

Laskine, Lily, 404

Last, Nella, 67, 102, 343, 346

Latabár, Kálmán, 605

Latvia: anti-Russian actions, 145; Russian advance across, 550

Laval, Pierre, 127

League of Nations, 125

Leander, Zarah, 317

Lebanon: British attack, 126

Leckie, US Marine Robert, 254, 257, 261

Leclerc, Gen. Jacques Philippe, 557

Lee, Cdr. Fitzhugh, USN, 573, 642

Lee, Adm. Willis Augustus (‘Ching’), USN, 262

Lee Kuan Yew, 211, 215

Leese, Gen. Oliver, 595

Leigh-Mallory, Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford, 88, 532

Leitner, Karl, 593

Lekachman, Robert, 664

LeMay, Maj.Gen. Curtis, 637–8, 640, 646–7

Lemelsen, Gen. Joachim, 148

Lempicka, Regina, 21

Lend-Lease (US-Britain): introduced (1941), 187, 189; and British weapons requirements, 362; ends, 664

Leningrad: siege and famine, xvii, 148, 158–9, 167–71, 301; Germans advance on, 156, 159; life and conditions in, 170–5, 313; attempted relief of, 173–4; privilege and corruption in, 173; cannibalism, 174, 312; Govorov appointed to command, 311; blockade broken, 313; German offensive and Russian counter-attack, 313; number of deaths, 313; sufferings suppressed, 313–14; liberated (January 1944), 525

Leonova, Klavdiya, 338

Leopold III, King of the Belgians, 25, 62–4

Lesort, Pierre, 57–8

Lessing, Lt. Hans-Otto, 84

Lewis, Don, 566

Lewis, John, 10

Lewis, Norman, 350, 461

Leyte Gulf, Battle of (1944), 571–4

Leyte island, 570–1, 574

Liberator bombers: as convoy air cover, 275, 281–2

Libya: campaign in, 107, 109–11, 113–14, 130, 188

Liebenstein, Baron Gustav von, 449

Lightfoot, Operation, 371

Lim Kean Siew, 214

Lin Yajin, 430

Lindbergh, Charles, 147

Lindsey, Lt.Cdr. Eugene, 248

Lindstrom, Harold, 591, 606

Linlithgow, Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of, 418

Linsen, Albrecht, 166

List, Field Marshal Wilhelm von, 303

Lithuania: Jews killed by German sympathisers, 148, 511

Litwak, Leo, 607

Lokal-Anzeiger (newspaper), 14

London: Blitz (1940–1), xvii, 88, 92–5

Longerich, Peter, 512

Lorient: submarine pens, 280

Lott, Helmut, 671

Lübeck: British army reaches, 613

Luftwaffe: faith in Ju88 bomber, 40; at Dunkirk, 66–7; machine guns refugees, 69–70; attack on Britain, 81, 97, 101; defeated in Battle of Britain, 82–7; losses in Battle of Britain, 87, 89–90, 92; bombs London and other cities, 88–9, 92–4, 143; actions in Mediterranean, 118, 296; in Greece and Crete, 120, 122–3; forces diverted to Russia, 143; hesitancy in attacking Arctic convoys, 289; at Stalingrad, 308–9, 317; supplies only German units in Russia, 319; casualties, 324; at Battle of Kursk, 389; losses against US Mustang fighters, 442, 486–7; early bombing effectiveness, 473; ground support, 473–4; quality of aircraft, 473, 482; fighters diverted to counter Allied bombing offensive, 480; and aircraft production, 482; weakness against Normandy landings, 536; collapses, 551, 664

Lukacs, John, 510

Łukasiewicz, Juliusz, 16

Luth, Wolfgang, 279

Luxembourg: opposes German occupation, 404–5

Luzhkov, Sergei, 173

Lvov, Pilot Officer B., 654

MacArthur, Gen. Douglas: in defence of Philippines, 231–2; withdraws to Australia, 233, 236; Wainwright reports to on Corregidor, 234; reputation and character, 235–6, 439, 569–70, 667; lacks men for attack on Rabaul, 254; disdain for Australians in Papua New Guinea, 265, 432; dissension over Papua campaign, 267; aided by intelligence intercepts, 369; Pacific strategy and campaign, 433, 439; opens New Guinea campaign, 435; rivalry with Nimitz, 439; returns to liberate Philippines, 569–71, 575; lands at Leyte island, 570; on conduct of campaign on Okinawa, 641; urges landing on Borneo, 645; appointed supreme commander for invasion of Japan, 646; signs Japanese surrender document, 652; rule in Japan, 656; and Japanese biological warfare participants, 672

McCallum, Sgt. Mickey, 533

McCampbell, Cdr. David, 474

McCloy, John