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Turner, E. S. The Phoney War. Michael Joseph, 1961.

Tute, Warren. The Reluctant Enemies. Collins, 1990.

Tyson, Geoffrey. Forgotten Frontier. Calcutta, 1945.

Umezu, Yoshijiro. “Facing the Decisive Battle,” Kaikosha Kiji, 1945.

Ungvary, Krisztian. Battle for Budapest. Tauris, 2003.

Vallicella, Vittorio. Diario di Guerra da El Alamein alla tragica ritirata 1942–1943. Edizioni Arterigere, 2009.

Vaz Ezdani, Yvonne, ed. Songs of the Survivors. Goa, Noronha, 2007.

Vigor, P. H. Soviet Blitzkrieg Theory. Macmillan, 1984.

Walters, Anne-Marie. Moondrop to Gascony. MPG Books, 2009.

Waugh, Evelyn. Officers and Gentlemen. Chapman & Hall, 1955.

———. Unconditional Surrender. Chapman & Hall, 1961.

———. Diaries. Edited by Michael Davie. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976.

Weinburg, Gerhard. A World at Arms. Cambridge, 1994.

Weinstein, Alfred. Barbed Wire Surgeon. Macmillan, 1947.

Wellum, Geoffrey. First Light. Penguin, 2002.

Westphal, Siegfried, ed. The Fatal Decisions. Michael Joseph, 1952.

White, Peter. With the Jocks. Sutton, 2001.

White, Theodore, and Annalee Jacoby. Thunder Out of China. Gollancz, 1947.

Willkie, Wendell. One World. Simon & Schuster, 1942.

Wilmot, Chester. The Struggle for Europe. Wordsworth, 1997.

Wilson, Kevin. Journey’s End. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010.

Wolff-Monckeburg, Mathilde. On the Other Side. Edited by Ruth Evans. Pan, 1979.

Woodman, Richard. Malta Convoys. John Murray, 2000.

———. Arctic Convoys. John Murray, 2001.

———. The Real Cruel Sea. John Murray, 2004.

Wooldridge, E. T., ed. Carrier Warfare in the Pacific. Smithsonian, 1993.

Zhadobin et al., eds. Ogennaya Duga: Kurskaya Bitva Glazami Lubyanki [The Salient of Fire: Kursk as Seen Through the Eyes of the Lubyanka]. Moscow, 2003.

Zweig, Stefan. The World of Yesterday. Pushkin Press, 2010.

Index

Note: Ranks and titles are generally the highest mentioned in the text.

Aachen

Abbott, Lt. Stephen

Abe, Vice Adm. Hiroake

Abraham, W. E.

Abramov, Sasha

Abrial, Adm. Jean-Marie

Abyssinia, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

Ackerley, Joe Randolph

Addison, Air Vice-Marshal Edward

Addison, Edward

Africa: British colonies at outbreak of war, 1.1; Britain raises recruits in, 16.1

Afrika Korps, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4

airborne forces

airborne operations: German in Crete, 5.1; at Arnhem, 23.1; in Rhine crossing, 24.1

aircraft carriers: in Battle of Philippine Sea (1944)

Akhmedov, Capt. Ismael

Alam Halfa

Alamein see El Alamein

Albania, 5.1, 5.2, 8.1, 16.1

Albrecht, U.S. Marine Karl

Aleutians: Japanese attack on

Alexander, Lt. Gen. Sir Harold (later 1st Earl): commands in France (1940), 3.1; takes command in Burma, 9.1, 9.2; meets Stilwell, 9.3; transferred to Middle East, 9.4; appointed Middle East C-in-C, 14.1; Churchill’s demands on, 14.2; on U.S. Army weakness in North Africa, 14.3; as Eisenhower’s deputy, 14.4; reputation in North Africa, 14.5; conduct of Sicily campaign, 18.1, 18.2; overrules Clark at Salerno, 18.3; and advance on Rome, 18.4; calls on Italian partisans to rise against Germans, 18.5; considers death penalty for deserters, 18.6; on quality of German soldiers in Italy, 21.1; successful attack in Italy, 21.2

Alexandria: as British naval base, 5.1; French squadron interned at, 5.2; Royal Navy ships attacked by Italian human torpedoes, 11.1; decoy Malta convoy sails from, 11.2

al-Husayni, Mohammad Amin, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, 5.1, 16.1

Ali, Rashid

Allain, Jehan

American Volunteer Group: in Burma

Amery, Leo, 1.1, 16.1, 16.2

Anders, Gen. Władysław, 1.1, 1.2, 12.1, 21.1, 23.1, 26.1

Anderson, Gen. Kenneth

Andrievich, Alexander

Anglo-Saxon (British coal carrier), 11.1

Annan, Noel

Anthony, Maj. Seth

anti-Semitism: in France, 4.1, 5.1, 16.1, 20.1, 26.1; throughout Europe, 20.2; in Russia, 20.3; in Britain and U.S.A., 20.4; made unacceptable by Holocaust, 26.2; see also Holocaust; Jews

Antonescu, Gen. Ion

Antwerp, 23.1, 23.2, 23.3, 23.4

Anufriev, Yevgeni

Anzio, Italy, 13.1, 18.1, 21.1, 21.2

Arakan, 17.1, 22.1, 25.1