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Park, Air Vice-Marshal Keith, 82, 88

Parker, Wilfred, 207

Parsons, George, 48

Partisan Review (USA), 186

partisans see resistance groups

Pas de Calais: in British deception for invasion, 536

Pastré, Countess Lily de, 404

Patch, Gen. Alexander, 579

Patton, Gen. George S.: reputation, 380, 439; excuses US killings of Italians, 445; campaign in Sicily, 447, 449; anti-Semitism, 516; advance in France, 554–5, 577–8; assault on Metz, 583; slow progress through Alsace-Lorraine, 586; aggressiveness, 594, 667; counter-attacks in Ardennes, 594; bridgehead at Oppenheim, 611; reaches Pilsen, 630

Paul, Prince of Yugoslavia, 464–5

Paulus, Field Marshal Friedrich: commands in battle for Stalingrad, 303, 306, 308, 310; encircled, 316; surrenders, 320

Pavlov, Dmitry, 150

Payne, Stanley, 113

Pearl Harbor, xvi, 189, 196–7, 199, 230, 240

Pedestal (Malta convoy), 295–7

Peleliu island, 570

Penang, 210

Penney, Gen. Bill, 463

Percival, Lt.Gen. Arthur, 203, 208–9, 211–12, 213–14

Pereira, Pedro Teotonio, 112

Perkin, Sgt. Jack, 85

Perrett, Geoffrey, 199

Pershanin, Vladimir, 397

Pershing, Gen. John, 186

Persia: Polish refugees in, 498

Pétain, Marshal Philippe, 70–2, 75, 81, 125, 127, 403, 660

Peter, King of Yugoslavia, 464–6

Peters, Franz, 175

Petrolinas, Kasimir, 489

Petrov, Gennady, 550

Pexton, Sgt. L.D., 64, 79

Pfeffer-Wildenbruch, Gen. Karl, 600, 603

Pflug, Henner, 608, 616

Philippine Sea, Battle of the (1944), 565–7

Philippines: pre-war life in, 202; Japanese attack and conquer, 231–6; MacArthur’s aim to reconquer, 433; MacArthur liberates, 569–70, 574–5, 645, 664; post-war radicalism, 659; casualties, 670

‘Phoney War’, 27–8

Pilcher (of Anglo-Saxon), 277

Platt, Gen. Sir William, 109, 411

Pocock, Walter, 92

Pogue, Forrest, 230, 542, 656, 660

Pointblank, Operation, 443

Poland: Germany invades (1939), 1–5, 8–9; Britain and France give guarantees to, 2–3, 15, 660; pre-war conditions, 2; military campaign, 4–7, 12–13, 18–20; cavalry actions, 5, 12–13; and British-French declaration of war, 11; anti-German massacres, 13; German losses, 13, 22; Germans justify invasion, 14; Jews persecuted, 14, 23, 508, 515–17; partitioned between Germany and Soviet Russia, 15; Britain and France fail to support, 15–17; defeat and surrender, 20; Soviet atrocities and deportations, 21–2; casualties, 22, 670; exiles continue fight against Germany, 22–3, 126; government in exile in London, 22; west annexed by Germany, 23; effect of collapse, 24–5; airmen in Battle of Britain, 84; antagonism to Russia, 305; and acquisition of Enigma machines for Allies, 367; citizens deported to Siberia and gulags, 496–7; communist army in USSR, 498; soldiers and civilians leave Russia for Persia, 498; forces in Italy, 529; and Russian westward advance, 548–9; fate decided at Yalta conference, 595–6; treatment of exiles at war’s end, 654–5

Politz, Germany, 475

Pongratsch, Col. von, 20

Poppel, Martin, 145, 317, 444–5, 535, 545, 608

Port Moresby, Papua, 237, 240, 263, 265

Portal, Marshal of the RAF Sir Charles (later Viscount), 228, 476, 481, 484

Portes, Hélène de, 70

Portugal: neutrality, 398

Potentilla (Norwegian corvette), 280–2

Pound, Adm. Sir Dudley: and Arctic convoys, 285, 291

Powell, Anthony, 343

Pozdnyakov, Semyon, 617

Poznánski, Arthur, 342

PQ16 (Arctic convoy), 290

PQ17 (Arctic convoy): dispersed and destroyed, 290–3

PQ18 (Arctic convoy), 292

Prague: Russians capture, 630

Primosole bridge, Sicily, 446–7

prisoners of war: German exploitation of, 504–6; return to Britain at war’s end, 655–6

promotions (of service leaders), 326

prostitution: increase, xviii; in Italy, 350

Pruller, Lt. Wilhelm, 4

Pujji, Mahender Singh, 417

Purama Quila, India, 420

Putin, Vladimir, 666

Pyle, Ernie, 95, 231, 335, 474

Quebec conference (September 1943), 451

Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, 85

Quezon, Manuel L., 231

Quisling, Vidkun, 45–6

Rabaul, New Britain, 236, 433, 435, 439

Raczyński, Count Edward, 2, 16

radar: developed, 82

Raeder, Adm. Erich: on German