Inferno - Max Hastings [451]
Archangel, Russia
Ardeatine Caves, Italy
Ardennes: German advance in (1940), 3.1; Battle of the Bulge (winter 1944–5), 14.1, 23.1, 23.2
Arlington Hall (U.S. intelligence centre)
Arnhem: radio communications failure, 18.1; Montgomery plans to capture, 23.1; battle for bridge, 23.2
Arnim, Gen. Jürgen von
Arnold, Gen. Henry Harley (“Hap”), 19.1, 25.1
Arrow Cross militia (Hungary), 24.1, 24.2
Arthur, Douglas, 2.1, 5.1
Artom, Emanuele
Ashford, Pam
Asia: resistance to postwar return of colonial rule
Assam, 22.1, 22.2
Atkinson, Rick
Atlantic: shipping movements, 11.1; and air cover, 11.2; air gap and Irish neutrality, 16.1
Atlantic, Battle of the: and oil imports, 4.1; U.S. participation in, 8.1; importance, 11.1; war against submarines, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1; Allied success, 11.4
Atlantic Charter, 16.1, 20.1
Atlantic Monthly (U.S.A.), 8.1
Atlantic Wall
atomic bomb: used against Japan, itr.1, 25.1; Stalin’s desire for, 24.1; development, 25.2; debate over use, 25.3
Attlee, Pvt. Bill
Auchinleck, Gen. Claude: takes command at Narvik, 3.1; replaces Wavell in Middle East, 5.1; troop numbers in Middle East, 5.2; armoured force destroyed, 5.3; dismisses Ritchie and takes command of Eighth Army, 14.1, 14.2; replaced by Montgomery, 14.3; qualities, 26.1
Ault, Cmdr. Bill
Aung San, 25.1, 26.1
Aurel, Voichita
Auschwitz-Birkenau, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 20.4
Australia: troops in Papua New Guinea, 10.1, 10.2, 16.1, 17.1; troops hold out in Tobruk, 5.1, 5.2; forces in Greece, 5.3; casualties in Syria, 5.4; quality of troops in North Africa, 5.5; and Japanese threat, 8.1, 16.2; troops’ irresolution in Malaya, 9.1, 9.2; limits refugees from Japanese, 9.3; declines to divert troops to Burma, 9.4; labour obstructionism, 16.3; support for Britain, 16.4; troops in Borneo, 25.1; total casualties, 26.1
Austria
Autumn Mist, Operation, 23.1, 23.2
Axum (Italian submarine), 11.1
Backe, Herbert, 6.1, 13.1
Bader, Douglas
Badoglio, Marshal Pietro, 5.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3
Bagration, Operation, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4, 26.1
Baldwin, Hanson
Balkans: Axis controls, 5.1; Soviet army drive for, 21.1
Ball, George
Ball, Pvt. Victor
Baltic states: Stalin annexes, 3.1; and German invasion of Russia, 6.1; embrace Germans, 6.2; Jews eliminated, 20.1
Bamm, Peter
Barbarossa, Operation, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1
Barclay, George, 4.1, 4.2
Baring, Sarah
Baromykin, Boris
Barthrop, Paddy
Basu, P. K.
Bataan peninsula, Philippines: resists Japanese, 10.1; death march, 10.2
Battle of Britain: conduct, 4.1; British victory, 4.2; effect on U.S. sentiment, 8.1; pilots’ experience of, 19.1
Battleaxe, Operation, 5.1
Baxter, Corp. Peter, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1
Bayly, Christopher
Béarn (French aircraft carrier), 3.1
Beaver, Lt. Dorothy, 13.1, 13.2, 23.1
Bekbulatov, Valentina
Belgium: neutrality, 2.1; Germans invade and occupy, 3.1, 3.2; surrenders, 3.3; fishing fleet relocates to Brixham, 13.1; liberated (1944), 23.1; civilian suffering, 23.2
Belgorod, 15.1, 15.2
Belgrade: Russians capture
Bell, Ottilie
Belov, Capt. Nikolai, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 21.1, 24.1
Belsey, Elizabeth
Bengal: famine (1943–4), itr.1, 13.1, 16.1
Bennett, Maj. Gen. Gordon
Berezhkov, Valentin
Bergholz, Olga
Bergonzoli, Gen. Annibale
Beria, Lavrenty: proposes elimination of Polish officers, 1.1; warns Stalin of proposed German invasion, 6.1; orders arrests, 6.2; as head of NKVD, 6.3; shoots dissident elements in prisons, 6.4; and NKVD actions at Stalingrad, 12.1; purges, 20.1
Berle, Adolf
Berlin: bombed, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4; antiaircraft defences, 19.5; zoo bombed, 19.6; Russians reach, 23.1, 24.1; Eisenhower leaves to Russians, 24.2, 24.3; Zhukov’s assault on, 24.4; Red Army rape and destruction in, 24.5, 24.6
Bevan, Aneurin
Beveridge Report (1942)
Bévéziers (French submarine), 5.1
Billotte, Gen. Gaston
biological warfare: by Japanese, 17.1, 26.1
Bir Hacheim, Libya
Birbahadur, Naik
Bird, Lt. Tom
Bismarck Sea, Battle of the (March 1943)
Black, Lt. Earlyn
Blamey, Gen. Sir Thomas
Blanchard, Gen. Georges, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Bleichman,