Inferno - Max Hastings [463]
Luftwaffe: faith in Ju-88 bomber, 2.1; at Dunkirk, 3.1; machine-guns refugees, 3.2; attack on Britain, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3; defeated in Battle of Britain, 4.4; losses in Battle of Britain, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7; bombs London and other cities, 4.8, 4.9, 6.1; actions in Mediterranean, 5.1, 11.1; in Greece and Crete, 5.2, 5.3; forces diverted to Russia, 6.2; hesitancy in attacking Arctic convoys, 11.2; at Stalingrad, 12.1, 12.2; supplies only German units in Russia, 12.3; casualties, 13.1; at Battle of Kursk, 15.1; losses against U.S. Mustang fighters, 18.1, 19.1; early bombing effectiveness, 19.2; quality of aircraft, 19.3, 19.4; ground support, 19.5; fighters diverted to counter Allied bombing offensive, 19.6; and aircraft production, 19.7; weakness against Normandy landings, 21.1; collapses, 21.2, 26.1
Lukacs, John
Łukasiewicz, Juliusz
Luth, Wolfgang
Luxembourg: opposes German occupation
Luzhkov, Sergei
Lvov, Pilot Officer B.
MacArthur, Gen. Douglas: in defence of Philippines, 10.1; withdraws to Australia, 10.2, 10.3; Wainwright reports to on Corregidor, 10.4; reputation and character, 10.5, 17.1, 22.1, 26.1; lacks men for attack on Rabaul, 10.6; disdain for Australians in Papua New Guinea, 10.7, 17.2; dissension over Papua campaign, 10.8; aided by intelligence intercepts, 14.1; Pacific strategy and campaign, 17.3, 17.4; opens New Guinea campaign, 17.5; rivalry with Nimitz, 17.6; returns to liberate Philippines, 22.2, 22.3; lands at Leyte island, 22.4; on conduct of campaign on Okinawa, 25.1; urges landing on Borneo, 25.2; appointed supreme commander for invasion of Japan, 25.3; signs Japanese surrender document, 25.4; rule in Japan, 26.2; and Japanese biological warfare participants, 26.3
McCallum, Sgt. Mickey
McCampbell, Cmdr. David
McCloy, John J.
McCormick, Anthony
McCormick, Gunner David, 13.1, 26.1
McCormick, Donald
McCormick, Edward
McCrae, Sgt. Ben
McCreery, Gen. Richard
McCullers, Carson
Macduff, Pvt. Robert
McIndoe, Dr. Archibald
Macmillan, Harold
Macedonia
Madagascar: British occupy
Magaeva, Svetlana
Maginot Line
Mahindasa, P. G.
Mahlo, Dr. Karl-Ludwig
Maier, Ruth, 3.1, 20.1
Mailer, Norman
Majeski, Joseph
Majhi, Gourhori
Majundan, “Jumbo,”
Malaya: Japanese invade and occupy, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2; prewar life in, 9.3; weak air defences, 9.4; troops’ irresolution, 9.5; antiwar demonstrations, 16.1; under Japanese occupation, 20.1; plans to reconquer, 22.1; Slim plans invasion, 25.1; Japanese surrender prevents independence, 26.1; see also Singapore
Malinovsky, Marshal Rodion
Malta: dependence on Gibraltar, 5.1; Hitler fails to capture, 5.2, 11.1; under siege and air attacks, 11.2, 11.3; convoys to, 11.4; casualties, 11.5; relieved, 11.6
Manchuria: Russian campaign in (1945), 17.1, 25.1
Mandalay, Burma, 9.1, 25.1
Manhattan Project: cost, 25.1; work on, 25.2; see also atomic bomb
Manila, Philippines, 10.1, 22.1
Mann, Thomas
Mannerheim, Marshal Carl Gustav, 2.1, 2.2
Manning, Olivia: The Balkan Trilogy, 5.1
Manstein, Field Marshal Erich von: insensitivity over Polish invasion, 1.1; Crimean victory, 12.1; ordered north to end Leningrad resistance, 12.2; in Battle of Stalingrad, 12.3; generalship, 12.4, 26.1; commands Army Group South, 15.1; and Battle of Kursk, 15.2, 15.3; condemns Jews, 20.1; withdrawal in Ukraine, 21.1; loyalty to Hitler, 21.2
Mao Tse-tung, 8.1, 17.1, 25.1, 26.1
Marcks, Maj. Gen. Erich
Mareth Line, Tunisia
Marianas, 17.1, 22.1, 25.1
Marion, U.S. Marine Ore
Marita, Operation, 5.1
Mariuki, Josiah
Market Garden, Operation, 23.1
Markoyianni, Maris
Marquand, J. P.: So Little Time, 8.1
Mars, Lt. Alastair
Mars, Operation (Russia, November 1942), 12.1
Marshall, Gen. George: reputation, 17.1; approves bombing of French targets, 21.1; Stilwell complains to about British reluctance in Burma, 22.1; attempts to correct MacArthur, 22.2; and weather holding up advance in Europe, 23.1; and development of atomic bomb, 25.1; achievements, 26.1
Marshall Islands
Martilla, Elena
Martin, Cmdr. Paul
Marzabotto, Italy: German massacre
Masaki, Kay
Mass Observation: on “Phoney