Inferno - Max Hastings [460]
Imai, Maj. Gen. Takeo
Imphal, 22.1, 22.2
Inber, Vera
India: view of Second World War, itr.1; troops in North Africa, 5.1, 5.2; troops defeated in Malaya, 9.1; racially segregated brothels, 16.1; anti-British sentiments, 16.2; supplies for Britain, 16.3; independence/nationalist movement, 16.4, 16.5, 22.1; servicemen, 16.6; repressive British administration, 16.7, 16.8; riots, 16.9; numbers under arms, 17.1; troops’ casualties in Italy, 18.1; and British operations against Japanese in Burma, 22.2; total casualties, 26.1; see also Bengal
Indian Army: loyalty and conditions, 16.1, 16.2; performance, 17.1
Indian Legion (Subhas Chandra Bose’s)
Indian National Army, 9.1, 16.1, 22.1
Indochina: French rule in, 16.1, 26.1; Japanese control, 16.2
Inoue, Vice Adm. Shigeyoshi
intelligence: Allies served by Ultra
Iraq: British intervention in
Ireland: neutrality, 8.1, 16.1; U.S. sympathy for, 8.2
Ironside, Gen. Sir Edmund: on Polish campaign, 1.1; on French military plans, 2.1; and Norway campaign, 3.1; strategy against German advance in France, 3.2; anger with Billotte, 3.3
Irrawaddy, river, 9.1, 25.1
Irwin, Basil
Irwin, Lt. Gen. Noel
Ishii, Lt. Gen. Shiro
Ishpaikin, Yuri
Israel: created
Italy: enters war, 3.1, 5.1; lacks common strategy with Germany, 4.1; industrial and military weakness, 5.2; workers in Germany, 5.3; German contempt for, 5.4; in North African campaigns, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7; unmilitary attitude and performance, 5.8, 18.1; air force in attacks on Britain, 5.9; and German domination, 5.10, 18.2; occupation of Balkans, 5.11; naval strength, 11.1, 11.2; human torpedo crews attack Alexandria, 11.3; naval defeat at Taranto, 11.4; attacks Malta convoys, 11.5; claims to sink U.S. battleship, 12.1; troops retreat in Russia, 12.2; conditions for civilians, 13.1; food shortages and hunger, 13.2; troops in Rommel’s army, 14.1; Allied invasion and campaign in, 18.3, 18.4, 18.5, 21.1, 23.1; troops surrender and fail in Sicily, 18.6, 18.7; surrenders and joins Allies, 18.8, 18.9, 18.10; casualties, 18.11, 18.12, 26.1; Gustav Line, 18.13; partisans, 19.1, 18.14; winter conditions, 18.15; effect of campaign on local people, 18.16; German reprisals against civilians in, 18.17; women violated by Allied troops, 18.18; Allied desertions in, 18.19; British prisoners of war trek south to Allied lines, 18.20; occupies German troops, 18.21; aircraft quality, 19.2; German retreat in, 21.2; German surrender, 24.1
Ito, Sgt. Kiyoshi
Ivanov, Private (of Russian 70th Army)
Iwo Jima
Izraelit (Moscow legal adviser)
Jackson, Jackie
Jaik, Juhan
James, Lt. Harold
Japan: atomic bomb used against, itr.1, 10.1, 25.1, 26.1; war and troops in China, itr.2, 8.1, 10.2, 17.1, 17.2; bombed by U.S. aircraft, itr.3–xvii, 10.3, 17.3, 25.2, 25.3; as threat to British interests, 5.1; Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy (1940), 5.2, 8.2, 8.3; advances checked in Pacific (1942), 7.1; attack on U.S.A., 8.4, 8.5, 8.6; U.S. freeze on assets (July 1941) and oil embargo, 8.7, 8.8, 17.4; early military victories and territorial gains, 8.9, 8.10, 8.11, 9.1, 10.4, 10.5, 12.1; neutrality pact with Russia (1941), 8.12; defeat in skirmish with Russia (1939), 8.13; faith in German victory, 8.14, 8.15; strategic aims, 8.16, 10.6, 10.7; troops in French Indochina, 8.17; occasional hesitancy in battle, 8.18, 10.8, 26.2; attitudes to war, 9.2; attack on Malaya, 9.3; atrocities and ruthlessness, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 9.7, 10.9, 10.10, 17.5, 17.6, 20.1, 22.1, 22.2, 23.1; skill in jungle warfare, 9.8, 9.9; soldiers use bicycles, 9.10; code of bushido, 9.11; and British surrender of Singapore, 9.12; racism in conquered territories, 9.13; treatment of prisoners of war, 9.14, 10.11; occupies Burma, 9.15, 9.16, 17.7; fighting qualities, 9.17, 10.12, 17.8, 17.9, 26.3; attack on Philippines, 10.13; popular U.S. ignorance of, 10.14; occupies and develops Rabaul, 10.15; weak intelligence, 10.16; difficulty in replacing losses, 10.17; diverts troops to China, 10.18; casualties at Guadalcanal, 10.19; faces defeat, 10.20; total casualties, 13.1, 26.4; food supplies, 13.2; women