Inferno - Max Hastings [466]
Omaha beach, Normandy
Oppenheimer, Robert
Orange, Plan (U.S.), 8.1
Origo, Iris, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4
Orwell, George
Oryol, Russia, 6.1, 15.1
Osadchinsky, Georgy
Osamu, Dazai
Osmus, Wesley
Ostellino, Lt. Pietro, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 14.1, 14.2, 19.1
Ostermayr, Herta
Otari (liner), 11.1
Overlord, Operation, 21.1; see also Normandy
Overy, Richard, 19.1; Why the Allies Won, itr.1
Owen, Ken, 13.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3
Ozawa, Adm. Jizaburo, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3
Paber, Capt. Herbert
Pabst, Herbert
Pacific: Japanese advance in, 7.1; U.S. resources in, 8.1, 17.1; U.S. successes in, 10.1, 22.1; conduct of war in, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4; Japanese strategy in, 10.5; losses, 10.6; Australian coast watchers, 10.7; Ultra intelligence in, 14.1; U.S. island-hopping campaign, 17.2; demand on shipping resources, 22.2; servicemen’s experience of, 22.3
Page, Michael
Paget, Gen. Bernard
Pajari, Lt. Col. Aaro
Palestine: refugees from Egypt, 14.1; effect of war on, 26.1
Panaiko (Soviet marine)
Panikhidin, Ivan
Papua New Guinea: Australian and U.S. troops in, 10.1, 10.2, 16.1, 17.1; campaign in, 10.3, 17.2, 17.3; conditions, 10.4, 10.5; importance questioned, 10.6
Pares, Sir Bernard
Paris: falls to Germans (1940), 3.1; falls to Allies (1944), 21.1
Park, Air Vice-Marshal Keith, 4.1, 4.2
Parker, Wilfred
Parsons, George
Partisan Review (U.S.A.), 8.1
partisans see resistance groups
Pas de Calais: in British deception for invasion
Pastré, Countess Lily de
Patch, Gen. Alexander
Patton, Gen. George S.: reputation, 14.1, 17.1; excuses U.S. killings of Italians, 18.1; campaign in Sicily, 18.2, 18.3; anti-Semitism, 20.1; advance in France, 21.1, 23.1; assault on Metz, 23.2; slow progress through Alsace-Lorraine, 23.3; aggressiveness, 23.4, 26.1; counterattacks in Ardennes, 23.5; bridgehead at Oppenheim, 24.1; reaches Pilsen, 24.2
Paul, Prince of Yugoslavia
Paulus, Field Marshal Friedrich: commands in battle for Stalingrad, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4; encircled, 12.5; surrenders, 12.6
Pavlov, Dmitry
Payne, Stanley
Pearl Harbor, itr.1, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1, 10.2
Pedestal (Malta convoy), 11.1
Peleliu, island
Penang
Penney, Gen. Bill
Percival, Lt. Gen. Arthur, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Pereira, Pedro Teotonio
Perkin, Sgt. Jack
Perrett, Geoffrey
Pershanin, Vladimir
Pershing, Gen. John
Persia: Polish refugees in
Pétain, Marshal Philippe, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 16.1, 26.1
Peter, King of Yugoslavia
Peters, Franz
Petrolinas, Kasimir
Petrov, Gennady
Pexton, Sgt. L. D., 3.1, 4.1
Pfeffer-Wildenbruch, Gen. Karl, 24.1, 24.2
Pflug, Henner, 24.1, 24.2
Philippine Sea, Battle of the (1944)
Philippines: prewar life in, 9.1; Japanese attack and conquer, 10.1; MacArthur’s aim to reconquer, 17.1; MacArthur liberates, 22.1, 22.2, 25.1, 26.1; postwar radicalism, 26.2; casualties, 26.3
“Phoney War,”
Pilcher (of Anglo-Saxon), 11.1
Platt, Gen. Sir William, 5.1, 16.1
Pocock, Walter
Pogue, Forrest, 10.1, 21.1, 26.1, 26.2
Pointblank, Operation, 18.1
Poland: Germany invades (1939), 1.1, 1.2; Britain and France give guarantees to, 1.3, 1.4, nts.1; prewar conditions, 1.5; military campaign, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8; cavalry actions, 1.9, 1.10; and British-French declaration of war, 1.11; anti-German massacres, 1.12; German losses, 1.13, 1.14; Germans justify invasion, 1.15; Jews persecuted, 1.16, 1.17, 20.1, 20.2; partitioned between Germany and Soviet Russia, 1.18; Britain and France fail to support, 1.19; defeat and surrender, 1.20; Soviet atrocities and deportations, 1.21; casualties, 1.22, 26.1; exiles continue fight against Germany, 1.23, 5.1; government in exile in London, 1.24; west annexed by Germany, 1.25; effect of collapse, 1.26; airmen in Battle of Britain, 4.1; antagonism to Russia, 12.1; and acquisition of Enigma machines for Allies, 14.1; citizens deported to Siberia and gulags, 20.3; communist army in USSR, 20.4; soldiers and civilians leave Russia for Persia, 20.5; forces in Italy, 21.1; and Russian westward advance, 21.2; fate decided at Yalta conference, 23.1; treatment of exiles at war’s end, 26.2
Politz, Germany
Pongratsch,