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Mowat, Farley, 13.1, 13.2, 18.1, 18.2
Mpagi, James
Muehlebach, Fritz
Mufti of Jerusalem see al-Husayni, Mohammad Amin
Müller, Heinrich
Murmansk, Russia, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
Murray, Lt. Gen. Horatius
Murrow, Edward R.
Muslim Waffen-SS
Mussolini, Benito: as ally of Hitler, 1.1, 2.1; enters war, 3.1, 18.1; optimism, 4.1; derided in Germany, 5.1; Mediterranean strategy, 5.2, 5.3; impatience for success, 5.4; army strength, 5.5; incompetence, 5.6; conduct of war in North Africa, 5.7, 14.1; invades Greece, 5.8; praises attack on Pearl Harbor, 8.1; decorates submarine commander, 12.1; admired by Italian-Americans, 16.1; arrest and fall in Italy, 18.2, 18.3; protests to Hitler over German atrocities in Italy, 18.4; captured and shot, 24.1
Mustang fighters (U.S.), 18.1, 19.1
Mutaguchi, Gen. Renya
Muzio Attendolo (Italian cruiser), 11.1
Mydans, Carl, 2.1, 2.2
Myitkyina, Burma
Nagasaki: atomic bombed, itr.1, 25.1, 26.1
Nagumo, Adm. Chuichi, 8.1, 10.1
Nakagawa, Col. Kunio
Nakayama, Col. Motoo
Namamura, Akira
Naoishi, Lt. Kanno
Naples: prostitution in, 13.1; Germans despoil, 18.1
Narvik: proposed Allied expedition to, 2.1, 2.2; Allies’ strategic interest in, 3.1, 3.2; Allies seize from Germans, 3.3
Naval Expansion Bill (U.S., 1938), 8.1
Navereau, Major
Nazi-Soviet Pact (1939), 1.1, 1.2, 6.1
Nazism: war aims, 6.1; and absolute authority, 20.1; collaborators in occupied Europe, 20.2; Jewish policy, 20.3, 20.4, 26.1; T4 euthanasia programme, 20.5; generals’ opposition to, 21.1; leadership rivalries, 26.2; see also Germany; Hitler, Adolf
Neame, Lt. Gen. Philip
Nehru, Jawaharlal: on British defeat in Burma, 9.1; anti-British views, 16.1; writes to Linlithgow on Indian restraint, 16.2; imprisoned, 16.3; on Bengal famine, 16.4
Neill, Lt. Dominic
Neill, George
Nelson, Donald
Némirovsky, Irène, 5.1, 20.1; Suite française, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 20.2
Nesterenko, Maj. Mariya
Neumann, Erich
Neutrality Act (U.S.)
New Guinea see Papua New Guinea
New Orleans: shipbuilding
New York Times, 13.1
New Zealand: forces in Greece and Crete, 5.1, 5.2; excellence of troops, 5.3; casualties, 26.1
Nguyên Giáp
Nicolson, Harold, 9.1, 14.1, 19.1
Nijmegen, 23.1, 23.2
Nikulin, Nikolai, 7.1, 12.1, 13.1
Nimitz, Adm. Chester, USN, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 22.1, 26.1
Nixon, Barbara
NKVD (Soviet secret police): purges, 3.1; executions and deportations in war against Germany, 6.1; recruitment and strength, 6.2, 12.1; on guerrilla fighters, 6.3; arrests Leningrad dissident, 7.1; reports cases of cannibalism in Leningrad, 7.2; units escape from Sevastopol, 12.2; at Stalingrad, 12.3; on conditions in Leningrad, 12.4; suppresses traitors and collaborators, 21.1; postwar counterinsurgency campaign, 26.1
Noel-Baker, Philip
Nomonhan Incident (Russia–Japan)
Norman, Corp. William
Normandy: battle for (1944), itr.1, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3; landing craft requirements, 14.1; preparations for invasion, 21.4; airborne landings, 21.5; seaborne landings (D-Day), 21.6; Allied looting, 21.7; casualties, 21.8, 21.9; soldiers’ experiences and conduct in, 21.10
Norstad, Gen. Lauris
North Africa: German forces in, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2; desert campaign in, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6; inactivity, 5.7, 5.8; conditions, 5.9; German defeat in, 7.1; British commitment to, 11.1, 14.1; Allied Torch landings (November 1942), 11.2, 11.3, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4; British setbacks, 14.5; British Alamein victory and advance in, 14.6; final Allied victory, 14.7; see also Libya
Northern Ireland: nonadoption of conscription
Norway: neutrality violated by Allies, 2.1; Germany invades and occupies, 2.2, 3.1, 8.1; opposes invasion, 3.2, 3.3; Allied campaign in, 3.4, 3.5; British evacuate, 3.6; government exiled in Britain, 3.7; casualties, 3.8; German bases in, 3.9, 11.1, 11.2; Hitler fortifies coastline, 11.3
Novy, Henry
Nuremberg trials (war crimes)
nurses: female
O’Callaghan, Father
O’Connor, James
O’Connor, Lt. Gen. Sir Richard
Okhapkina, Lidiya
Okinawa, 22.1, 25.1, 25.2
Olav, Crown Prince of Norway
Olympic, Operation,