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Wayman, Corp. George, 636

Weichs, Gen. Maximilian, Baron von, 303, 315, 551

Weinburg, Gerhard: A World at Arms, xix

Weinstein, Dr Alfred, 233

Welchman, Gordon, 368

Welles, Sumner, 665

Wells, Corp. Ira, 471

Wells, Rod, 413

Wellum, Geoffrey, 82, 470

Wenck, Gen. Walther, 623

West, Frazer, 565

West, Sgt. Horace, 445

West Africa: recruits from, 410; see also Dakar Weygand, Gen. Maxime, 35, 55, 61, 63, 70

White, Lt. Peter, 327, 332, 607

Whitehead, Don, 534

Wick, Helmut, 83

Widdicombe, Wilbert, 277

Wiedling, Lt.Gen. Karl, 626

Wigram, Lt.Col. Lionel, 450

Wildcat fighters (US), 241, 248–9, 251

Wilhelm Gustloff (liner), 622

Willkie, Wendell, 181, 187

Wingate, Maj.Gen. Orde, 434, 634

Winn, Godfrey, 292

Winstanley, John, 561

Wissler, Denis, 86

Wolff, Gen. Karl, 630

Wolff-Monckeburg, Mathilde, 346, 450, 482, 489, 553, 576, 653

women: in Soviet Russia, 309, 311, 354–8; mobilised, 352–4; sexually exploited, 355, 357, 360; as agents in SOE, 358; in combat, 358; as nurses, 358; romances and sexual freedom, 359–60; violated by Japanese, 429–31; violated in Italy, 461; violated by Russians in Germany, 619–20, 627–8

Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF; Britain), 358–9

Wood, Edwin, 577

Wood, Jean, 345

Wood, Gen. Robert, 186

Woolrych, Col. Stanley, 406

Wurzburg scanner (German): stolen in raid at Bruneval, 325–6

Wylde, Maj., 213–4

Yalta conference (February 1945), 595–6, 611

Yamaguchi, Adm. Tamon, 252

Yamamoto, Adm. Isoroku, 193–4, 237, 243–5, 252–3, 262–3, 669

Yamashita, Gen. Tomoyuki, 209–10, 211, 213, 215–16, 235, 260, 574, 645, 669

Yanovichl, Belorussia, 394

Yokoyama, Lt.Col. Yosuke, 208

Young, Catherine Renee, 348

Yugoslavia: casualties, xvi, 465, 670; factions and ethnic conflicts, xix, 405, 465–9; Italy prepares to attack, 109; Germany occupies, 118–19, 465; women fighters, 358; conditions and people, 464; operations in, 464; partisan activities, 466–9; Axis atrocities in, 468–9; Tito gains control, 469; Russians occupy, 550; and retreat of German army, 608; Red Army excesses in, 629–30

Yukina, Vera, 147

Yushkevich, Lt., 168

Zagari, Bianca, 340–1

Zagari, Raffaele, 341

Zero (Japanese fighter plane): in Battle of Midway, 243, 248–50, 253; qualities, 474

Zhijia Shen, 428

Zhukov, Marshal Georgy: and German invasion of Russia, 143; command, 159, 162; and defence of Moscow, 160, 162; doctrine of non-retreat, 166; reinforced, 166; advises Stalin against extending offensive operations, 167; replaces Voroshilov at Leningrad, 168–9; recalled from Leningrad, 173; favours narrow front, 177; defeats Japanese in Nomonhan Incident (1939), 192; appointed Deputy Supreme Commander, 307; takes command at Stalingrad, 307–8; revisits Leningrad, 313; Uranus offensive (November 1942), 315–16; promoted marshal, 320; offensive towards Dnieper, 383; counter-attacks at Kursk, 390–1; encircles Germans on Dnieper west bank, 525; Operation Bagration offensive, 527, 546; advance into Germany, 608; assault on Berlin, 615, 621–2, 623–5; qualities, 668

Ziegelmeyer, Ernst, 169, 171

Zimmer, SS Panzergrenadier Fritz, 544

Zimmerman, Walter, 521

Zipper, Operation, 645

Zoya, Zarubina, 147

ukowski, Tadeusz, 21

Zweig, Stefan, 9, 69

Zyklon B (gas), 513

Acknowledgements

I feel very fortunate that the cast of colleagues and friends to whom I am indebted for assistance changes little with my successive books. At HarperCollins in London, the counsel of my editors Arabella Pike and Robert Lacey, together with that of Andrew Miller at Knopf in New York, much enhanced the text. My agents Michael Sissons in London and Peter Matson in New York have been steering my courses for longer than any of us care to remember. Professor Sir Michael Howard OM, CH, MC, Don Berry, Professor N.A.M. Rodger and Dr Williamson Murray offered immensely valuable comments on all or sections of the manuscript, and corrected some of my most egregious errors. Dr Lyuba Vinogradova translated much Russian material, while Serena Sissons culled Italian memoirs, letters and diaries. Dr Tami Biddle of the US War Army College is wonderfully generous