Inferno - Max Hastings [456]
Engineer, Miroo
England, Len, 5.1, 13.1, 20.1
Enigma: Allies capture from Germans
Enola Gay (B-29 Superfortress), 25.1
Eppler, Hans
Epsom, Operation, 21.1
Eriksen, Col. Birger
Eritrea
Esders, Wilhelm (“Doc”)
Esperance, Cape
Estonia: anti-Russian actions, 6.1; and extermination of Jews, 24.1
Europe: postwar settlement
euthanasia: as Nazi policy
evacuees (British)
Evans, Redd, and John Jacob Loeb: “Rosie the Riveter” (song)
Fahmy, Hikmet
Falaise Gap, Normandy, 21.1, 21.2
famines: in British Empire, 13.1, 16.1
Farouk, King of Egypt, 5.1, 16.1
Farrell, Capt. Charles
Farrow, Ernie
fascists: interned in Britain
Feiner, Staff Sgt. Harold
Feldt, Gen. Kurt
Felix, Charles
Fellers, Col. Bonner, 5.1, 22.1
Fenet, Henri
Fennema, Staff Sgt. Harold, 13.1, 13.2
Ferguson, George
Ferić, Mirosław
Fermi, Enrico
Fermi, Laura
Ferreira, Lt. Pedro
Fibikh-Savencho, Aleksandra
Finland: resists Russian invasion (1939–40), 2.1; armistice with Russia (1940), 2.2; receives help from Germany, 2.3; allies with Germany against Russia, 7.1; Russians advance into (1944), 21.1; armistice (1944), 21.2; casualties, 26.1
Finucane, Lt. Tony
First Army (British)
Fitch, Adm. Aubrey, USN
Fitt, Sgt. Bert
Flanner, Janet
Fleet Air Arm: weak performance, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Fletcher, Rear Adm. Frank, USN, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5
Focke-Wulf 190 (German aircraft), 19.1, 19.2
Focke-Wulf Condor (German long-range aircraft)
Folcher, Gustave
Foley, Frank
Force Publique (Belgian Congo)
Formica, Lt. Vincenzo, 14.1, 14.2
Fortitude, Operation, 21.1
France: declares war on Germany, 1.1, 1.2; guarantees to Poland, 1.3; fails to support Poland, 1.4, 1.5; reluctance to take offensive against Germany, 1.6, 2.1; confronts Germany, 2.2; army demoralisation, 2.3; differences with Britain, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2; and Norway campaign, 3.3, 3.4; German advance in, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7; refugees from German advance, 3.8; soldiers evacuated at Dunkirk, 3.9; holds off Germans at Dunkirk, 3.10; defeat and surrender, 3.11; casualties, 3.12; Italy makes war on, 3.13; fleet bombarded by British, 4.1; servicemen repatriated by British, 4.2, 5.1; anti-Semitism, 4.3, 5.2, 16.1, 20.1, 26.1; resists British advances on territories, 4.4; Vichy government, 4.5; in Syria, 5.3; Vichy intervention in Iraq, 5.4; divided loyalties and anti-British sentiments, 5.5; Resistance movement, 5.6, 16.2; German naval bases in, 11.1; individual physical decline in war, 13.1; Vichy forces resist U.S. landings, 14.1, 16.3; gendarmes send Jews to death camps, 16.4; German sympathisers and collaborators in, 16.5; colonies, 16.6; Vichy naval forces fight Siamese, 16.7; dictatorship, 18.1; colonial troops commit atrocities in Italy, 18.2, 18.3; preinvasion bombing of, 19.1, 21.1; German economic exploitation, 20.2; Service de Travail Obligatoire (German forced labour), 20.3; Allied advance in, 21.2, 23.1; liberation, 23.2; Allied landings in south (August 1944), 23.3; postwar recriminations (l’épuration), 24.1, 26.2; maintains colonial rule in Indochina at war’s end, 26.3; antagonism to Britain, 26.4; enters war as act of principle, 26.5
Franco, Gen. Francisco, 5.1, 5.2
Frank, Anne
Frank, Hans
Frank, Richard
Fraser, Lt. David, 1.1, 13.1, 24.1
Fredendall, Lt. Gen. Lloyd
Freeman, Air Marshal Sir Wilfred
French Expeditionary Corps: in Italy
Freyberg, Gen. Bernard, VC
Friedmann, Lt. George
Friedrich, Ruth-Andreas
Friend, Midshipman Charles
Frier, J. R.
Fritsche, Hans
Fromm, Corp. Helmut, 24.1, 24.2
Frost, Lt. Col. John, 13.1, 23.1
Frunze, Mikhail
Frykman, Sven
Fuchida, Cmdr. Mitsuo
Fuchs, Karl, 6.1, 6.2
Fulton, Capt. Michael
Gabor, Edith
Gagliardi, Pfc. Eugene
Galland, Adolf
Gambia: recruits from
Gamble, Alan
Gamelin, Gen. Maurice: preparations for war, 1.1; confidence in Polish resistance, 1.2; proposes major offensive for 1941 or 1942, 2.1; on public demand for action, 2.2; on Reynaud’s proposed strategy, 2.3; and German advance, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3; on French soldiers’ behaviour, 3.4
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
Gariepy, Sgt. Leo
Garland (Polish destroyer),