Inferno - Max Hastings [467]
Poppel, Martin, 6.1, 12.1, 18.1, 21.1, 21.2, 24.1
Port Moresby, Papua, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4
Portal, Marshal of the RAF Sir Charles (later Viscount), 10.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3
Portes, Hélène de
Portugal: neutrality
Potentilla (Norwegian corvette), 11.1
Pound, Adm. Sir Dudley: and Arctic convoys, 11.1, 11.2
Powell, Anthony
Pozdnyakov, Semyon
Poznánski, Arthur
PQ16 (Arctic convoy)
PQ17 (Arctic convoy): dispersed and destroyed
PQ18 (Arctic convoy)
Prague: Russians capture
Primosole bridge, Sicily
prisoners of war: German exploitation of, 20.1; return to Britain at war’s end, 26.1
promotions (of service leaders)
prostitution: increase, itr.1; in Italy, 13.1
Pruller, Lt. Wilhelm
Pujji, Mahender Singh
Purama Quila, India
Putin, Vladimir
Pyle, Ernie, 4.1, 10.1, 13.1, 19.1
Quebec conference (September 1943)
Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead
Quezon, Manuel L.
Quisling, Vidkun
Rabaul, New Britain, 10.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3
Raczyński, Count Edward, 1.1, 1.2
radar: developed
Raeder, Adm. Erich: on German naval weakness, 2.1, 11.1; and invasion of Norway, 2.2; Mediterranean strategy, 4.1
Rainbow 5, Plan (U.S.), 8.1
Rajagopalachari, Chakravarti
Ramsay, Vice Adm. Bertram: organises Dunkirk evacuation, 3.1; naval command for invasion of Europe, 21.1
Randle, Maj. John, 9.1, 25.1
Rangoon, 25.1, 26.1, nts.1
Raspilair, Marine Joseph
Rathbone, Michael
Raymond, Bob
Raynes, Reg
Red Army: and German invasion, 6.1; conscripts and recruits, 6.2; equipment, 6.3; remains unbroken, 6.4, 6.5; casualties, 6.6, 21.1; reforms (autumn 1942), 12.1; advances (1943), 12.2, 15.1; dominance as ground force, 18.1; supports Tito in Yugoslavia, 18.2; mass methods, 21.2; skill in night fighting, 21.3; conditions and performance, 21.4; advance (summer 1944), 21.5, 23.1; reaches Berlin, 23.2; behaviour in Budapest, 24.1; meets Americans at Torgau, 24.2; captures Berlin, 24.3; behaviour in Germany, 24.4, 24.5, 25.1; final assault on Berlin, 24.6; compared with German army, 26.1; see also Soviet Russia
Redkin, Nikolai
Reeve, Bill
Rego family (of Burma)
Reichardt, Axel
Reichenau, Gen. Walter von
Reichswald forest
Rejewski, Marian
Remagen
Repington, Col. Charles à Court
Reporter, Piloo
resistance groups and partisans: in France, 5.1, 16.1; in Soviet Russia, 6.1, 15.1, 21.1; in Albania, 16.2; effectiveness, 16.3; in Italy, 18.1, 18.2; in Yugoslavia, 18.3
Reston, James: Prelude to Victory, 10.1
Reynaud, Paul: succeeds Daladier as prime minister, 2.1; and Norway campaign, 3.1; replaces Gamelin with Weygand, 3.2; Churchill meets in France, 3.3; and German advance in France, 3.4; moves government to Château de Chissay, 3.5
Rhine, river: Allied advance on, 23.1; Allies cross, 23.2, 24.1
Ribbentrop, Joachim von
Rice, Captain (of Otari), 11.1
Rice, Tilly
Richardson, Brig. Frank
Richelieu (French battleship)
Richey, Paul, 3.1, 4.1
Ricketts, Lt. Milton
Riefkohl, Capt. Frederick, USN
Riga: Jews shot
Ringer, Panzergrenadier Lt. Ralph
Rink, Herbert
Ritchie, Gen. Neil, 5.1, 14.1
Robinett, Blair
Rochefort, Cmdr. Joseph, 10.1, 10.2, 14.1
Rockwell, Norman
Rohland, Walter
Rokossovsky, Gen. Konstantin, 7.1, 15.1, 15.2, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 26.1
Roller, Josef
Romania: Soviet deportations from, 3.1; Germany occupies, 5.1, 5.2; oilfields, 5.3, 18.1, 19.1; troops in war against Russia, 12.1; anti-Semitism, 20.1, 20.2; Russians occupy, 21.1; casualties, 24.1, 26.1
Rome: falls to Allies
Rommel, Gen. Erwin: in German advance in France (1940), 3.1; commands Afrika Korps, 5.1, 5.2; threatens Egypt, 5.3, 12.1, 14.1; Cunningham forces to retreat, 5.4; repels Wavell’s offensive, 5.5; reputation, 5.6, 5.7; counteroffensive (January–June 1942), 5.8; shipping losses and fuel shortages, 11.1, 14.2; over-ambition, 14.3; retreats from El Alamein, 14.4, 14.5; in Tunisia, 14.6; leaves Africa, 14.7; Egyptian popular support for, 16.1; qualities, nts.1
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 8.1, 16.1
Roosevelt, Franklin D.: and Jewish suffering, itr.1; faith in Britain prevailing, 2.1; Churchill meets in Washington: (June 1942), 5.1;