All Hell Let Loose_ The World at War 1939-1945 - Max Hastings [461]
Miers, Anthony (‘Skip’), VC, 671
Mihailovińć, Draža, 465
Mikawa, Vice-Adm. Gunichi, 255–6
Mikoyan, Anastas, 149, 323
Milburn, Clara, 147
Milch, Gen. Erhard, 482–3, 486
Millett, Allan and Williamson Murray: There’s a War to be Won, xix–xx
Minamoto, Capt. Yoshiro, 656
Minsk: falls to Germans, 149
Mitchell, Margaret: Gone with the Wind, 1, 20
Mitford, Nancy, 343
Mitscher, Adm. Marc, USN, 254, 566–7
Mitsuharu, Noda, 563
Mitsuru, Yoshida, 646
Mitze, Ilse, 489
Model, Gen. Walther: stabilises line in Russia, 167; and Hitler’s order not to yield ground, 175; mounts counter-offensive west of Moscow, 176; in Battle of Kursk, 389–92; and Russian breakthrough at Leningrad, 525; replaces Kleist, 526; replaces Busch, 546; in Battle of Arnhem, 580; ferocity of troops, 592; suicide, 611; qualities, 668
Möhne dam, 481–2
Molders, Werner, 83
Molotov, Vyacheslav M.: on Soviet occupation of Poland (1939), 15; congratulates Hitler on capture of Paris, 74; and Russian westward expansionism, 98–9
‘Molotov cocktails’: in Finland, 32
Moltke, Count Helmuth von, 8, 156, 159, 376, 500, 502, 514, 552
Monckeburg, Lt. Jasper, 180
Monroe, Rose Will, 353
Monsarrat, Nicholas, 399
Monte Cassino, Italy, 340, 456, 528–9
Montgomery, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law: Alamein victory, 298; wartime promotions, 326; commands in North Africa, 366, 369–70, 373, 378–9; in Sicily campaign, 446–7, 449; dismisses Wigram, 450; returns to England for Normandy invasion, 455; on slow advance in Italy, 455; command for invasion of Europe, 532, 536; campaign in Normandy, 537; and battle for Caen, 554–5; relegated to leadership of 21st Army Group, 557; aims to capture Arnhem bridge, 577, 580–3; antagonises Americans, 584, 668; shortage of infantrymen, 585; given command of northern sector in defence of Ardennes, 593; conducts final stages of campaign in NW Europe, 610, 611; crosses Rhine, 611; accepts German surrender at Lüneburg Heath, 630; qualities, 667–8
Moody, Lt. Tony, 329, 591
Moonen, Rosemary, 352
Mooney, James, 186
Moore, Marine Lt. Paul, 258
Moore, Lt. Peter, 452
Moorehead, Alan, 126, 131, 350
Morawetz, SS Sgt., 538
Mordal, Jacques, 39
Morden, Beryl, 96
Morgan, Lt.Gen. Sir Frederick: on US war effort, 229; on US leaders, 326; criticises Montgomery, 379, 584; as chief Allied planner for D-Day, 531; failure at Arnhem, 581; on Ardennes battle, 594
Morris, Robert, 219
Moscow: threatened by Germans, 148, 150, 159–60, 162–3, 165; Germans forced to retreat from, 168; overnight curfew lifted (Easter 1942), 299
Moser, Hans, 333, 576
Moser, Konrad, 576
Moskvin, Nikolai, 152, 155, 179
Mountbatten, Adm. Lord Louis (later 1st Earl), 635, 658
Mowat, Farley, 331, 333, 456, 462
Mpagi, James, 408
Muehlebach, Fritz, 9
Mufti of Jerusalem see al-Husayni, Mohammad Amin
Müller, Heinrich, 615
Murmansk, Russia, 284–6, 290, 292
Murray, Lt.Gen. Horatius, 326
Murrow, Edward R., 101–2
Muslim Waffen-SS, 405
Mussolini, Benito: as ally of Hitler, 3, 27; enters war, 75–6, 458; optimism, 100; derided in Germany, 104; Mediterranean strategy, 104, 109; impatience for success, 106–7, 109; army strength, 108; incompetence, 108; conduct of war in North Africa, 109, 370; invades Greece, 115–17; praises attack on Pearl Harbor, 196; decorates submarine commander, 307; admired by Italian-Americans, 402; arrest and fall in Italy, 448, 458; protests to Hitler over German atrocities in Italy, 461; captured and shot, 626
Mustang fighters (US), 442, 486
Mutaguchi, Gen. Renya, 563–4
Muzio Attendolo (Italian cruiser), 297
Mydans, Carl, 33, 37–8
Myitkyina, Burma, 634
Nagasaki: atom bombed, xvi, 649–50, 673
Nagumo, Adm. Chuichi, 197, 243, 245, 247, 249, 250, 252–3
Nakagawa, Col. Kunio, 570
Nakayama, Col. Motoo, 234
Namamura, Akira, 649
Naoishi, Lt. Kanno, 643
Naples: prostitution in, 350; Germans despoil, 454
Narvik: proposed Allied expedition to, 36, 41; Allies’ strategic interest in, 48–9; Allies seize from Germans, 51
Naval Expansion Bill (US, 1938), 185
Navereau, Maj., 56
Nazi–Soviet Pact (1939), 2–3, 8,