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broadcasts appeal to Soviet people, 6.4, 6.5; military inexperience, 6.6, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3; as Supreme Commander, 6.7; justifies enforced industrialisation, 6.8; military strength, 6.9; and defence of Moscow, 6.10; Voroshilov attacks, 7.4; orders attack to relieve Leningrad, 7.5; rejects wholesale evacuation of Leningrad, 7.6; seeks to make common cause with Hitler, 7.7; war aims, 7.8; Western Allies fear separate peace with Germany, 8.1; and Russian religious revival, 12.1; directs New Year offensive (1942), 12.2; misjudges German aims (1942), 12.3; authorises strategic retreat from Voronezh, 12.4; and defence of Stalingrad, 12.5; delegates operational control in battle, 12.6, 12.7; appoints Zhukov Deputy Supreme Commander, 12.8; and Battle of Stalingrad, 12.9; appointed marshal, 12.10; successes, 12.11; not informed of Ultra, 14.1; orders frontal assaults after Kursk victory, 15.1; deports ethnic minorities, 20.1; amnesties Poles, 20.2; derides Western Allies for feebleness, 21.1; on pursuit of Germans, 21.2; welcomes Allied war in West, 23.1; sanctions pillage and rape by Red Army, 24.1, 24.2; final confrontation with Hitler, 24.3; claims capture of Berlin, 24.4; victory ceremony in Berlin, 24.5; promises attack on Manchuria, 25.1; incompatibility with West, 26.1, 26.2; learns from mistakes, 26.3; consequences of policies, 26.4; controls Soviet military machine, 26.5; interferes with generals, 26.6; see also Soviet Russia

Stalingrad: German defeat, 7.1, 12.1, 14.1; German advance on, 12.2, 12.3; Zhukov takes command at, 12.4; Battle of (1942–3), 12.5, 12.6; casualties, 12.7; effect of victory on Red Army morale, 12.8

Stanford-Tuck, Bob

Starzyński, Stefan, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4

Stark, Adm. Harold (“Betty”), 8.1, 8.2

Starr, Lt. Col. George

Starvation, Operation, 25.1

Stauffenberg, Col. Claus von

Steinbeck, John, 8.1, 8.2, 13.1

Steinhilper, Ulrich, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

Stevens, Kenneth

Stewart, Ian

Stilwell, Gen. Joseph, 9.1, 22.1, 25.1

Stimson, Henry Lewis, 8.1, 25.1

Stockwell, Laurie

Stoneman, Eva

Storrie, Col. Carl

Straub, Ruth

Street, Arthur, 2.1, 4.1

Striem, Solomon

Strong, Maj. Gen. Kenneth

Stroop, Lt. Cmdr. Paul

Stuka dive bombers (German)

Stülpnagel, Karl-Heinrich von

Stumme, Georg von

submarines: U.S. effectiveness against Japan, 22.1, 25.1; see also U-boats

Suchcitz, Andrzej

Suffolk, Charles Henry George Howard, 1.1th Earl of (“Wild Jack”), 4.1

Sullivan, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas (of Waterloo, Iowa)

Sumatra: Churchill proposes operations in

Sumiya, Lieutenant

Sun Li-jen, Gen.

Suner, Serrano

Superfortress (U.S. B-29 bomber)

Suppanz, Emmy

Surcouf (French submarine), 4.1

Surkov, Lieutenant

Swaminadhan, Kashmi

Sweden: iron ore supplies to Germany, 2.1, 3.1; Molotov’s interest in, 4.1; neutrality, 16.1

Switzerland: neutrality, 16.1; wartime profits and appropriations, 16.2

Swordfish torpedo bombers

Syfret, Vice Adm. Edward

Syria: French in, 5.1, 5.2; British occupation resisted, 5.3

T4 euthanasia programme (Nazi)

T-34 tanks (Soviet), 7.1, 7.2, 12.1, 15.1, 15.2

tactical air forces (Allied)

Tadao, Hayashi

Tadimichi, Lt. Gen. Kuibayashi

Takahashi, Maj. Shoji, 25.1, 25.2

Takenonori, Nakao

Takeo, Kasuga

Takushima, Norimitsu

Takushiro, Col. Hattori

tanks: in North African campaign, 5.1; in Battle of Kursk, 15.1; German superiority in Normandy, 21.1; see also T-34 tanks; Tiger tanks

Tapscott, Robert

Taranto, Battle of (1940)

Tarasevichi, Russia

Tarawa, Gilbert Islands

Tarczyński, Piotr, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3

Tassarfonga Point (Pacific)

Tatsuro, Lt. Izumiya, 8.1, 9.1

Tedder, Air Marshal Sir Arthur

Tehran conference (1943)

Telegin, Grigory

Teller, Edward

Temkin, Gabriel

Tennant, Capt. William

Tewes, Ernst

Thach, Jimmy

Thapa, Sherbadur

Thiaroye, near Dakar

Thomas, Sir Shenton, 9.1, 9.2

Thompson, Pfc. “Red,”

Thorpe, Capt. Norman

Thue, Col. David

Tiger tanks (German), 18.1, 18.2, 21.1

Times, The: on sympathy for Poland, 1.1

Timoshenko, Gen. Semyon

Tito, Marshal Josip Broz, 18.1, 24.1

Tobruk, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 11.1, 14.1, 16.1

Todt, Fritz

Toffey, Lt. Col. Jack, 18.1, 21.1