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Bulge, Battle of the (winter 1944–5) see Ardennes

Burgett, Donald

Burgoyne, Gen. John

Burke, Capt. Arleigh, USN

Burleigh, Michael: Moral Combat, itr.1, 4.1

Burma: Japanese invade and occupy, 9.1, 9.2, 17.1; British administration and attitudes, 9.3; Chinese military intervention in, 9.4; British losses in, 9.5; Indians in, 9.6; refugees, 9.7; pro-Japanese sentiments, 16.1; Indian airmen in, 16.2; British counterstrategy in, 17.2, 22.1; Wingate’s Chindits in, 17.3, 25.1; hostility to Japanese, 17.4, 20.1; Japanese declare independent, 17.5; Slim reconquers, 22.2, 25.2, 25.3, 26.1; post-war conditions, 26.2

Burma Defence Army, 9.1, 25.1

Burma Railway

Burma Road (to China), 9.1, 9.2, 9.3

Burrough, Rear Adm. Harold

Busatti, Sgt. Franco

Busch, Field Marshal Ernest

Butler, John

Butler, Signalman Richard

Butler, Richard Austen

Caen, Normandy, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3

Cairo: wartime conditions, 5.1; Rommel threatens, 12.1, 14.1

Calcutta: death rate in 1943 famine

Calvocoressi, Peter, Guy Wint and John Pritchard: Total War, itr.1

CAM ships (armed merchantmen)

Campbell, Sir Ronald

Canada: provides convoy escorts, 11.1, 11.2; troops in Dieppe raid, 13.1; tolerant attitude to Germans, 16.1; military service, 16.2; French Canadian hostility to war, 16.3; troops in invasion of Italy, 18.1; troops in Normandy battle, 21.1; troops delayed in Scheldt estuary, 23.1; soldiers’ behaviour in Europe, 23.2; casualties, 26.1

Canaris, Adm. Wilhelm

Canberra, HMAS (cruiser), 10.1

Capano, John

Carnera, Primo

Caroline Islands

Carton de Wiart, Maj. Gen. Adrian, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1

Cartwright, Jim

Carullo, Anthony

Caruso, Lt. Patrick

Casablanca Conference (1943), 17.1, 18.1, 19.1

Cash-and-Carry Bill (U.S., 1939), 8.1

Castlerosse, Valentine Edward Charles Browne, Viscount

Catroux, Gen. Georges

Caucasus: Germans drive for oilfields, 12.1, 12.2

Cazalet, Capt. Peter

Chaiko, Igor

Chamberlain, Neville: announces declaration of war, 1.1; and British guarantees to Poland, 1.2; reluctance to wage war, 1.3; nonintervention in Finnish winter war, 2.1; opposes violation of Norwegian neutrality, 2.2; and conduct of Norway campaign, 3.1; resigns premiership, 3.2; hopes for U.S. involvement in war, 8.1

Channel Islands (British), 13.1, 22.1

Chappell, William

Charlemagne Division (French Waffen SS)

Charlton, George

Chauvel, Jean

Cheek, Tom

Chennault, Claire

Cherkassy

Chetniks (Yugoslavia)

Chevalier-Paul (French super-destroyer), 5.1

Chiang Kai-shek, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 17.1, 22.1, 25.1

Childers, Lloyd

Chin Kee On

Chin Peng

China: Japanese war in, itr.1, 8.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 25.1; and Burma Road, 9.1, 9.2; offers military aid in Burma, 9.3; Japanese troops diverted to, 10.1, 17.4; food shortages, 13.1; internal divisions and conflict, 17.5; supply routes, 17.6; Japanese biological experiments in, 17.7; wartime casualties, 17.8, 26.1; “comfort women” for Japanese, 17.9; Japanese behaviour in, 17.10; in reconquest of Burma, 25.2; communist takeover thwarted at war’s end, 26.2

Chindits, 17.1, 25.1

Chindwin River, 9.1, 16.1, 22.1, 25.1

Chrystal, Capt. Charles

Chuikov, Gen. Vasily: in Finnish war, 2.1; at Stalingrad, 12.1, 12.2

Churchill, (Sir) Winston S.: and Jewish suffering, itr.1; and prospective war with Soviet Russia, 1.1; urges French to launch offensive, 1.2; and Finnish winter war, 2.1; and early naval actions, 2.2; advocates Norway expedition, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2; succeeds Chamberlain as prime minister, 3.3; meets Weygand in France, 3.4; approves evacuation of French soldiers at Dunkirk, 3.5; defiance, 3.6, 3.7, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 26.1; sends relief force to France, 3.8; speech to Commons (18 June 1940), 4.4; orders bombardment of French fleet, 4.5; and invasion threat to Britain, 4.6; refuses peace negotiations, 4.7; undefined war aims, 4.8; impatience with Wavell, 5.2, 11.1; and occupation of Iraq, 5.3; and occupation of Syria, 5.4, 5.5; and conduct of North Africa campaign, 5.6, 5.7; shocked at fall of Tobruk, 5.8; meets Roosevelt in Washington: