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Rainbow 5, Plan (US), 199

Rajagopalachari, Chakravarthi, 418

Ramsay, Vice-Adm. Bertram: organises

Dunkirk evacuation, 65; naval command for invasion of Europe, 532

Randle, Maj. John, 221, 646

Rangoon, 635, 659

Raspilair, Marine Joseph, 636

Rathbone, Michael, 543

Raymond, Bob, 363

Raynes, Reg, 479

Red Army: and German invasion, 142–3; conscripts and recruits, 151–2; equipment, 152; remains unbroken, 155, 158; casualties, 158, 547–8; reforms (autumn 1942), 308; advances (1943), 321, 394; dominance as ground force, 450; supports Tito in Yugoslavia, 469; mass methods, 546–7; skill in night fighting, 546; conditions and performance, 547–8; advance (summer 1944), 548–50, 589; reaches Berlin, 595; behaviour in Budapest, 604–5; meets Americans at Torgau, 612; captures Berlin, 613; behaviour in Germany, 616–20, 627–8, 629; final assault on Berlin, 621–5; compared with German army, 668; see also Soviet Russia

Redkin, Nikolai, 161

Reeve, Bill, 203

Rego family (of Burma), 218–19

Reichardt, Axel, 172

Reichenau, Gen. Walter von, 511

Reichswald forest, 586

Rejewski, Marian, 367

Remagen, 611

Repington, Col. Charles à Court, xx

Reporter, Piloo, 417

resistance groups and partisans: in France, 126–7, 403; in Soviet Russia, 154–5, 391, 546; in Albania, 406; effectiveness, 406; in Italy, 455, 459–60; in Yugoslavia, 466–9

Reston, James: Prelude to Victory, 228

Reynaud, Paul: succeeds Daladier as prime minister, 41; and Norway campaign, 50; replaces Gamelin with Weygand, 61; Churchill meets in France, 63; and German advance in France, 63; moves government to Château de Chissay, 70

Rhine, river: Allied advance on, 577–8; Allies cross, 586, 611

Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 8

Rice, Capt. (of Otari), 278

Rice, Tilly, 23

Richardson, Brig. Frank, 538

Richelieu (French battleship), 125

Richey, Paul, 69, 78

Ricketts, Lt. Milton, 239

Riefkohl, Capt. Frederick, USN, 255–6

Riga: Jews shot, 511

Ringer, Panzergrenadier Lt. Ralph, 114

Rink, Herbert, 556–7

Ritchie, Gen. Neil, 136, 364

Robinett, Blair, 234

Rochefort, Cdr. Joseph, 244–5, 253, 369

Rockwell, Norman, 353

Rohland, Walter, 163

Rokossovsky, Gen. Konstantin, 165–7, 384, 389, 608, 615, 623, 668

Roller, Josef, 576

Romania: Soviet deportations from, 75; Germany occupies, 115, 117; oilfields, 117, 463, 487; troops in war against Russia, 315; anti-Semitism, 510, 514; Russians occupy, 550; casualties, 600, 670

Rome: falls to Allies, 530

Rommel, Gen. Erwin: in German advance in France (1940), 62; commands Afrika Korps, 111, 114; threatens Egypt, 115, 306, 365; Cunningham forces to retreat, 128–9; repels Wavell’s offensive, 128; reputation, 130, 138; counter-offensive (January–June 1942), 136–8; shipping losses and fuel shortages, 271, 365–6; over-ambition, 366; retreats from El Alamein, 372, 375; in Tunisia, 378; leaves Africa, 378; Egyptian popular support for, 414; qualities, 668

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 189, 401

Roosevelt, Franklin D.: and Jewish suffering, xvii; faith in Britain prevailing, 30; and US reluctance to participate in war, 183–90; stands for and wins third presidential term (1940), 184, 187; broadcasts warning of effects of Nazi victory, 190; and oil embargo on Japan, 195–6, 432; and attack on Pearl Harbor, 195–6; Churchill meets in Washington: (June 1942), 138; (December 1941), 199; orders MacArthur to leave Philippines for Australia, 233; on U-boat threat, 275; supports Allied supplies for Russia, 284, 295; accepts Churchill’s Mediterranean strategy, 364; decrees Torch landings in North Africa, 375; attitude to race, 401; anti-imperialism, 420; disparages MacArthur, 439; granted choice of when to invade, 442; meets Karski, 516; overrules Churchill on bombing of French targets, 531; delays invasion of Europe, 533; unable to restrain MacArthur, 575; death, 647; and Russian alliance, 661; achievements, 663

Rosenberg, Alfred, 510, 513

Rosie the Riveter (iconic US figure), 353–4

Rostov, 320

Rotmistrov, Pavel, 389

Roton, Gen. Gaston René Eugène, 57

Rowberry, Ivor, 582

Roy,