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Schröder, Capt. Rolf-Helmut, 326, 525, 553, 594

Schwanenflügel, Dorothea von, 624

Schwerin von Krosigk, Johann Ludwig, Graf von (Lutz von Krosigk), 191

Scott, Col. Robert, 562

Seabrook, Maj. Belford, 349

Sealion, Operation: postponed, 92

Sebastian, Mihail, 11, 111, 128, 143, 147, 337, 514, 658

Sebelev, Pyotr, 622

Second Front: delayed, 303–4; see also Normandy

Sedan, 57

Seeckt, Gen. Hans von, 70

Seeds, Sir William, 15

Selective Service Act (US, 1940), 185

Selerie, Peter, 543

Senger und Etterlin, Gen. Fridolin von, 529

Serbia: Jews and gypsies killed, 518

Serbs: Croats persecute, 465, 467

Sevareid, Eric, 185

Sevastopol, 300–1, 304, 526

Seversky, Maj. Alexander, 473

Sexwale, Frank, 412

Shabalin, Maj. Ivan, 160

Shabolsky, Professor Yan, 171

Shaw, Irwin: The Young Lions, 515

Sherbrooke, Cdr. Robert, VC, 292

Sherwood, Robert, 184, 186

ships: new designs, 361

Shirer, William, 9

Sho-Go, Operation, 571, 574

Short, Lt.Gen. Walter, 196

Shostakovich, Dmitry, 173, 314

Showers, Col., 457

Siamese Prince (cargo liner), 277

Sicily: Allies invade (July 1943), 391, 442, 444–7; Germans evacuate, 448–9; outcome and lessons, 449–50, 531

Siegel, Grete, 490

Siegfried Line, 17

Sierra Leone, 409–10

Siialsvuo, Col. Hjalmar, 33

Sikorski, Gen. Władysław, 516

Simon, Irma, 524

Simpson, F/Lt. Bill, 57

Simpson, Gen. William Hood, 610–11

Sinclair, Capt. (Ashanti district commissioner), 409

Singapore: pre-war life in, 202; bombed, 203; falls to Japanese, 211–15

Singh, Jaswal (‘Tiger’), 417

Singh, Gen. Mohan, 422

Singh, Lt. Shiv, 422

Sivolobov (Russian partisan leader), 391

Skillett, Gladys, 340

Skopina, Dr Sof’ya, 299

Skorzeny, Otto, 448, 592

Skryabina, Elena, 170, 172

lzak, George, 7, 14

lzak family, 500

Sledge, Marine Eugene, 330–1

Slesarev, Alexander, 392

Slesarev, Vasily, 153

Slessor, Air Marshal John, 228

Slim, Gen. William: resists Japanese advance in Burma, 223; retreats over Irrawaddy, 224; on Japanese fighting qualities, 260; and British actions in Burma, 560–1, 563–4; reputation and popularity, 563; recaptures Burma, 633–5, 645; meets Aung San, 635; qualities, 667

Slovakia: Jews in, 522, 524

Smersh: reports on Kursk battle, 390; anti-collaborator actions, 526

Smith, Lt.Gen. Holland, 568

Smith, Howard, 98

Smith, Gen. Walter Bedell: hatred of Montgomery, 584

Smolensk, 148, 159, 395

Smorczewski, Ralph and Mark, 6

Smuts, Field Marshal Jan Christian, 412

Smyth, Maj.Gen. Sir John, 221–2

Snow, Edgar, 427

Soddu, Gen. Ubaldo, 116

Solak, B.J., 6

Solomon Islands, 254, 437; see also East

Solomons

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 627

Somaliland, 108, 110

Somervell, Gen. Brehon, 349

Somerville, Adm. Sir James, 81, 667

Sorge, Richard, 160

Sorpe dam, 481–2

Sosnkowska, Jadwiga, 18

Sotnik, Misha, 385–6

South Africa: troops in North Africa, 132, 137; coloured and black recruits, 411; treatment of Indians, 418

South America: remoteness from war, 398; Nazi refugees in, 671

Soviet Russia: agrees to partition of Poland, 2; non-aggression pact with Germany (1939), 2–3; occupies eastern Poland (1939), 15–16; deportations and atrocities in Poland, 21; invades Finland, 31–7; Finnish armistice, 37; and effect of fall of France, 74–5; rearmament, 75, 141; Germany plans invasion, 93, 97–100, 113; as cultural threat to Germany, 139–40; Germans invade, 139, 143–5, 661; German treatment of, 141–2, 149, 153, 180; German strategy in, 142, 177–8; repressive regime, 142–3; military strength and deployment, 143–4, 302; sends material aid to Germany, 143; early German successes and advance, 145–8, 156–8, 165; atrocities against Germans, 149; executions for supposed cowardice or desertion, 150, 169, 179, 310, 337; patriotic enthusiasm and resolution, 151, 156, 179–82; factories evacuated to east, 152; Jews slaughtered by Nazis, 152–3; total mobilisation, 152–3; ethnic deportations, 153; wartime industrial output, 153, 302, 662; casualties, 153, 177, 181, 324–5, 382, 395, 441, 547, 669; partisan movement and actions, 154–5, 391, 546; German collaborators in, 155; difficult terrain and weather, 160–1, 165–6; Hitler