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9.2; dismisses army commanders in Burma, 9.3; unable to send reinforcements to Burma, 9.4; command in Southeast Asia, 9.5; leaves Singapore, 10.1; on Bengal famine, 13.1; organises relief for Bengal famine, 16.1; offensive in Burma, 17.1

Wayman, Corp. George

Weichs, Gen. Maximilian, Baron von, 12.1, 12.2, 21.1

Weinburg, Gerhard: A World at Arms, itr.1

Weinstein, Dr. Alfred

Welchman, Gordon

Welles, Sumner

Wells, Corp. Ira

Wells, Rod

Wellum, Geoffrey, 4.1, 19.1

Wenck, Gen. Walther

West, Frazer

West, Sgt. Horace

West Africa: recruits from, see also Dakar

Weygand, Gen. Maxime, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

White, Lt. Peter, 13.1, 13.2, 24.1

Whitehead, Don

Wick, Helmut

Widdicombe, Wilbert

Wiedling, Lt. Gen. Karl

Wigram, Lt. Col. Lionel

Wildcat fighters (U.S.), 10.1, 10.2, 10.3

Wilhelm Gustloff (liner), 24.1

Willkie, Wendell, 7.1, 8.1

Wingate, Maj. Gen. Orde, 17.1, 25.1

Winn, Godfrey

Winstanley, John

Wissler, Denis

Wolff, Gen. Karl

Wolff-Monckeburg, Mathilde, 13.1, 18.1, 19.1, 19.2, 21.1, 23.1, 26.1, 26.2

women: in Soviet Russia, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1; mobilised, 13.2; sexually exploited, 13.3, 13.4; as agents in SOE, 13.5; in combat, 13.6; as nurses, 13.7; romances and sexual freedom, 13.8; violated by Japanese, 17.1; violated in Italy, 18.1; violated by Russians in Germany, 24.1, 24.2

Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF; Britain)

Wood, Edwin

Wood, Jean

Wood, Gen. Robert

Woolrych, Col. Stanley

Wurzburg scanner (German): stolen in raid at Bruneval

Wylde, Major

Yalta conference (February 1945), 23.1, 24.1

Yamaguchi, Adm. Tamon

Yamamoto, Adm. Isoroku, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 26.1

Yamashita, Gen. Tomoyuki, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 22.1, 25.1, 26.1

Yanovichl, Belorussia

Yokoyama, Lt. Col. Yosuke

Young, Catherine Renee

Yugoslavia: casualties, itr.1–xvi, 18.1, nts.1; factions and ethnic conflicts, itr.2, 16.1, 18.2; Italy prepares to attack, 5.1; Germany occupies, 5.2, 19.1; women fighters, 13.1; conditions and people, 18.3; operations in, 18.4; partisan activities, 18.5; Axis atrocities in, 18.6; Tito gains control, 18.7; Russians occupy, 21.1; and retreat of German army, 24.1; Red Army excesses in, 24.2

Yukina, Vera

Yushkevich, Lieutenant

Zagari, Bianca

Zagari, Raffaele

Zero (Japanese fighter plane): in Battle of Midway, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3; qualities, 19.1

Zhijia Shen

Zhukov, Marshal Georgy: and German invasion of Russia, 6.1; command, 6.2, 6.3; and defence of Moscow, 6.4, 6.5; doctrine of nonretreat, 7.1; reinforced, 7.2; advises Stalin against extending offensive operations, 7.3; replaces Voroshilov at Leningrad, 7.4; recalled from Leningrad, 7.5; favours narrow front, 7.6; defeats Japanese in Nomonhan Incident (1939), 8.1; appointed Deputy Supreme Commander, 12.1; takes command at Stalingrad, 12.2; revisits Leningrad, 12.3; Uranus offensive (November 1942), 12.4; promoted marshal, 12.5; offensive towards Dnieper, 15.1; counterattacks at Kursk, 15.2; encircles Germans on Dnieper west bank, 21.1; Operation Bagration offensive, 21.2, 21.3; advance into Germany, 24.1; assault on Berlin, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4; qualities, 26.1

Zigelmeyer, Ernst, 7.1, 7.2

Zimmer, SS Panzergrenadier Fritz

Zimmerman, Walter

Zipper, Operation, 25.1

Zoya, Zarubina

Zukowski, Tadeusz

Zweig, Stefan, 1.1, 3.1

Zyklon B (gas)

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Max Hastings is the author of more than twenty books, most recently Winston’s War. He has served as a foreign correspondent and as the editor of Britain’s Evening Standard and Daily Telegraph. He lives outside London.

ALSO BY MAX HASTINGS

REPORTAGE

America 1968: The Fire This Time

Ulster 1969: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland

The Battle for the Falklands (with Simon Jenkins)

BIOGRAPHY

Montrose: The King’s Champion

Yoni: Hero of Entebbe

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Going to the Wars

Editor

Did You Really Shoot the Television?

MILITARY HISTORY

Bomber Command

The Battle of Britain (with Len Deighton)

Das Reich

Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy

Victory in Europe

The Korean War

Warriors: Portraits from the Battlefield

Armageddon:

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