All Hell Let Loose_ The World at War 1939-1945 - Max Hastings [462]
Nazism: war aims, 140–1; and absolute authority, 501; collaborators in occupied Europe, 503; Jewish policy, 507–12, 514, 518–21, 670; T4 euthanasia programme, 507; generals’ opposition to, 551–2; leadership rivalries, 662; see also Germany; Hitler, Adolf
Neame, Lt.Gen. Philip, 114
Nehru, Jawaharlal: on British defeat in Burma, 227; anti-British views, 415; writes to Linlithgow on Indian restraint, 418; imprisoned, 421; on Bengal famine, 424
Neill, Lt. Dominic, 434
Neill, George, 589
Nelson, Donald, 184
Némirovsky, Irène, 126, 522–3; Suite française, 58, 69, 74, 523
Nesterenko, Maj. Mariya, 162
Neumann, Erich, 524
Neutrality Act (USA), 185
New Guinea see Papua New Guinea
New Orleans: shipbuilding, 362
New York Times, 335
New Zealand: forces in Greece and Crete, 118–20, 122–3; excellence of troops, 131; casualties, 670
Nguyên Giáp, 408
Nicolson, Harold, 215, 364, 493
Nijmegen, 581, 586
Nikulin, Nikolai, 173, 312, 355
Nimitz, Adm. Chester, USN, 244–5, 252–3, 254, 433, 436, 439, 570, 667
Nixon, Barbara, 93–4, 312
NKVD (Soviet secret police): purges, 75; executions and deportations in war against Germany, 149–50; recruitment and strength, 151, 322; on guerrilla fighters, 155; arrests Leningrad dissident, 173; reports cases of cannibalism in Leningrad, 174; units escape from Sevastopol, 301; at Stalingrad, 310; on conditions in Leningrad, 312; suppresses traitors and collaborators, 526; post-war counter-insurgency campaign, 654
Noel-Baker, Philip, 291
Nomonhan Incident (Russia–Japan), 192
Norman, Corp. William, 224
Normandy: battle for (1944), xvi, 533–46, 554–5, 557; landing craft requirements, 362; preparations for invasion, 530–3; airborne landings, 533; seaborne landings (D-Day), 534–5; Allied looting, 536; casualties, 536, 537; soldiers’ experiences and conduct in, 541–5
Norstad, Gen. Lauris, 638
North Africa: German forces in, 100, 111, 114; desert campaign in, 105–6, 108–11, 114–15, 128–30; inactivity, 128, 134; conditions, 134–6; German defeat in, 165; British commitment to, 270, 364; Allied Torch landings (November 1942), 282, 298, 361, 366, 375–6; British setbacks, 364–5; British Alamein victory and advance in, 372–4; final Allied victory, 379; see also Libya
Northern Ireland: non-adoption of conscription, 399
Norway: neutrality violated by Allies, 39; Germany invades and occupies, 41–2, 43–6, 185; opposes invasion, 46, 48–9; Allied campaign in, 48–50, 52–3; British evacuate, 50; government exiled in Britain, 50; casualties, 52; German bases in, 52, 274, 285; Hitler fortifies coastline, 285
Novy, Henry, 182
Nuremberg trials (war crimes), 672
nurses: female, 358
O’Callaghan, Father, 637
O’Connor, James, 190
O’Connor, Lt.Gen. Sir Richard, 110–11
Okhapkina, Lidiya, 174
Okinawa, 570, 640–2, 644
Olav, Crown Prince of Norway, 46
Olympic, Operation, 646–7, 649
Omaha beach, Normandy, 534
Oppenheimer, Robert, 648
Orange, Plan (US), 199
Origo, Iris, 443, 455, 458–9, 463
Orwell, George, 518
Oryol, Russia, 156, 392
Osadchinsky, Georgy, 167
Osamu, Dazai, 201
Osmus, Wesley, 251
Ostellino, Lt. Pietro, 114–15, 129, 134, 135, 365, 373, 491
Ostermayr, Herta, 626
Otari (liner), 278
Overlord, Operation, 532; see also Normandy Overy, Richard, 480; Why the Allies Won, xix Owen, Ken, 358, 472, 476–7, 479
Ozawa, Adm. Jizaburo, 566–7, 572–3
Paber, Capt. Herbert, 301
Pabst, Herbert, 308
Pacific: Japanese advance in, 165; US resources in, 199, 436; US successes in, 231, 564–73; conduct of war in, 236, 254–9, 261–2; Japanese strategy in, 236; losses, 242–3; Australian coastwatchers, 261; Ultra intelligence in, 369; US island-hopping campaign, 435–6; demand on shipping resources, 565; servicemen’s experience of, 565
Page, Michael, 276
Paget, Gen. Bernard, 50
Pajari, Lt.Col. Aaro, 33
Palestine: refugees from Egypt, 365; effect of war on, 673–4
Panaiko (Soviet marine), 311
Panikhidin, Ivan, 389
Papua New Guinea: Australian and US troops in, 253, 266–7, 413, 433; campaign in, 263–7, 435, 439; conditions, 264–5, 267; importance questioned, 267–8
Pares, Sir Bernard, 182
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