Inferno - Max Hastings [452]
Bletchley Park: decrypting and intelligence operations, itr.1, 14.1, 26.1; and U-boat radio traffic, 11.1; women at, 13.1
blitzkrieg: doctrine of, 7.1
Blois-Brooke, Lt. Cmdr. Michael
Blomberg, Field Marshal Werner von
Blum, John Morton
Blumenson, Martin, 8.1, 23.1
Blumentritt, Lt. Gen. Gunther
Blundell, Cmdr. George, 11.1, 11.2
Blunt, Maggie Joy
Blunt, Roscoe
Bock, Field Marshal Fedor von, 6.1, 6.2, 12.1
Boddy, Lt. John
Bogenhardt, Tassilo von, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1
Bolzano (Italian cruiser), 11.1
bomb disposal
Bond, Petty Officer Roger
Bondi, Capt. (German liaison officer to Italians)
Bone, Ted, 19.1, 19.2
Bonnet, Georges
Borkovsky, Dieter
Bormann, Martin
Borneo
Borthwick, Capt. Alastair
Bose, Lt. A. M.
Bose, Subhas Chandra
Boshell, Maj. Frankie
Bougainville
Bowlby, Lt. Alex, 18.1, 23.1
Bradley, Gen. Omar: troops’ indifference to war, 10.1; reputation, 14.1; campaign in Normandy, 21.1; hatred of Montgomery, 23.1
Bradshaw, Sgt. Sam
Brandt, Lt. Karl-Friedrich
Branson, Clive
Brantly, Lt. Hattie
Brauchitsch, Field Marshal Walther von, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1
Braun, Eva
Brazil: joins Allies
Brennan, Jack
Brereton, Gen. Lewis
Brest: submarine pens
Brewster, Kingman
Brickell, Russell
Briggs, Laura
Bristowe, Cmdr. Bobby
Britain: declares war on Germany, 1.1, 1.2; guarantees to Poland, 1.3; fails to support Poland, 1.4; conditions in “phoney war,” 2.1, 2.2; children evacuated, 2.3; accidents and road deaths in blackout, 2.4; civil defence, 2.5; differences with France, 2.6, 3.1, 3.2; troops in Norway campaign, 3.3; evacuates Norway, 3.4; inadequacy of army, 3.5; evacuated from France, 3.6; casualties in 1940 campaign in France, 3.7; German air assault on, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3; invasion threat to, 4.4, 4.5; scientific and technological superiority, 4.6; civilian casualties from air attacks, 4.7, 19.1; people’s views of war, 4.8; military prestige sinks, 5.1; communities’ behaviour in fall of Malaya, 9.1; soldiers’ irresolution, 9.2, 14.1; as aircraft and naval base, 11.1; dependence on sea supplies, 11.2, 11.3; merchant shipping losses, 11.4; wartime annual imports, 11.5; dockworkers’ inefficiency, 11.6; delegation to Moscow (1942), 12.1; total casualties, 13.1, 26.1; home front conditions, 13.2; food rations, 13.3; output of consumer goods declines, 13.4; women workers, 13.5; armaments production falls, 14.2; U.S. troops in, 14.3; intelligence sharing with U.S.A., 14.4; internment of dissenters and aliens, 16.1; opposes early landing in France, 18.1; artillery excellence, 18.2; inferior army wireless communications, 18.3; air bases, 19.2; anti-Semitism, 20.1; hesitancy over invasion of Normandy, 21.1; troops’ reluctance over invasion of Europe, 21.2; infantry weapons, 21.3; land war against Japanese, 22.1; manpower shortage in advance through Europe, 23.1, 23.2; developments on atomic bomb, 25.1; returned prisoners-of-war, 26.2; enters war as act of principle, 26.3; unmilitary behaviour, 26.4; low human cost of war, 26.5; defiance, 26.6; postwar loss of power, 26.7
British Empire: contribution to war effort, 16.1; administration, 16.2
British Expeditionary Force (BEF): in France, 2.1; and German advance, 3.1; evacuation from France, 3.2, 3.3; material losses in France, 3.4
Brontman, Lazar, 7.1, 12.1, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2, 21.1
Brooke, Gen. Alan (later Viscount Alanbrooke): on demoralised French army, 2.1; in Cairo with Churchill, 14.1; and slow Allied advance in Italy, 18.1, 21.1; hesitancy over invasion of Europe, 21.2; and British disposition in advance through Europe, 23.1; on army’s limitations, 26.1; achievements, 26.2
Brooke-Popham, Sir Robert, 9.1, 9.2
Broome, Capt. Jack, 11.1, 11.2
Brothers, Pete, 4.1, 4.2
Brown, Capt. Ramsay, 11.1, 11.2
Browning, Christopher
Browning, Lt. Gen. Frederick (“Boy”)
Bruneval, near Le Havre
Bruns, Col. Walter
Brush, Herbert
Brussels: liberated (1944)
Bucharest: liberated
Buckingham Palace: bombed
Buckner, Gen. Simon Bolivar, 25.1, 25.2
Budapest: battle for and capture by Russians
Budenny, Marshal Semyon
Bukov, Vasya
Bulgaria: neutrality