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Alban Hills 394, 396, 400
Albania 123, 124, 125, 239
Albert Canal 55
Albert Line 403
Aleutian Islands 252, 253, 256
Alexander I, Emperor of Russia 562
Alexander I, King of Yugoslavia 56
Alexander, Field Marshal Sir Harold (later 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis):
character 305;
at Dunkirk evacuation 68;
Italian campaign 376, 383, 388, 393, 395–6, 398, 400–403, 404;
and Japanese invasion of Burma 211–12;
North African campaigns 135, 281, 286, 292, 312, 313, 314;
and peace negotiations 546
Alexander, Hugh 349
Alexandria 40, 126, 132, 285, 292, 351, 588
Algeria 77, 92, 301, 308, 385
Algiers 306, 307, 308, 309, 488
Ali, General Rashid 131
Allen, Louis 272–3
Allenby, General Edmund, 1st Viscount 120
Alsace-Lorraine 44, 83, 483, 595
Altmark incident 38
‘Aluminium Trail’ 212
Alupka 454
America First movement 194
Amerika (Hitler’s special train) 27
Amiens 247
Åndalsnes 41–2
Anders, General Władysław 400, 417, 536
Anderson, Sir John (later 1st Viscount Waverley) 111
Anderson, Lieutenant-General (Sir) Kenneth 307, 308, 312, 313
Andropov, Yuri 563
Angers 26
Anglo-German Naval Agreement (1935) 9
Angriffskrieg (offensive war) 6
Anielewicz, Mordechai 244
Anschluss 6, 7
anthrax 275
Anti-Comintern Pact (1936) 5
anti-Semitism 220–21, 226, 250, 607–8
Antonescu, Marshal Anton 521
Antonov, Alexei 454
Antwerp 53, 473, 498, 499–500, 503, 504, 518, 595
Anvil, Operation 469, 491, 499, 606
Anziate 398
Anzio; battle of (1944) 384, 393–403, 406, 421, 461, 591;
Commonwealth military cemetery 406, 579
Aoki, Captain Taijiro 255
Aosta, Amedeo, 3rd Duke of 121
Apennines 382, 403
appeasement 10, 38
Aprilia 394
Arado 234 (bomber) 447
Arakan 170, 260, 567
Archangel 151, 315, 364, 365
Arctic convoys 355, 364–6, 434
Ardennes 49, 52, 56, 410, 498, 499
Ardennes Offensive (1944–5) 404, 492, 501, 503–10, 520, 540, 591, 595–6; see also Bulge, battle of the
Ardent, HMS 43
Arena, General Francesco 296
Arezzo 403
Argentina 221
Argus, HMS 364
Ariete Division 288, 296
Ariizumi, Commander
Tatsunosuke 276
Arizona, USS 192
Ark Royal, HMS 37, 40, 363
Armenia 43, 164
Armia Krajowa (Polish Home Army) 245, 536
Army Groups (German): A 49, 52, 56, 60, 70, 316, 317–18, 319, 337, 338, 341, 410, 542;
B 48, 55, 58, 60, 316, 335, 377, 471–2, 501, 514, 539, 540;
C 49, 52;
F 540–41;
Centre 152, 153, 157–8, 165–6, 169, 171, 180, 181, 316, 391, 411, 426, 491, 532–6, 542, 548, 549;
Don 338, 410;
Kurland 544, 548, 549;
North 18, 21, 152, 153, 171, 528, 530, 533, 541, 548, 549, 595;
North Ukraine 530, 534, 539;
South 18, 21, 153–4, 168, 175, 316, 410, 411, 422, 523, 528, 530, 533, 540, 544, 549, 588;
South Ukraine 531, 539;
South-west 404;
Vistula 554
Arnhem 502, 520, 538, 540, 603
Arnim, General Hans-Jürgen von 314, 492
Arno Line 403
Arno river 403–4
Arnold, General Henry H. ‘Hap’ 208, 449–50
ARP (Air Raid Precautions) 102, 103, 111
Arras 59, 61
Arromanches 477, 485–6
Aryans 19, 76, 140, 165, 220, 243, 365, 521, 547, 559, 579
Asdic (echo-sounding device) 35, 366
Assam 212
Assam Rifles 271
Astoria, USS 256, 258
Astrakhan 315, 317, 588
Athenia, SS 35
Athens 125, 363
Atkinson, Rick 308
Atlantic, battle of the 115–16, 351–2, 355–64, 367–74, 602;
Allied shipping losses 37, 357, 358, 359–60, 368, 370, 372;
Battle of the Atlantic Committee 360;
code-breaking 349, 351, 357, 363, 367–9, 606;
U-boat campaigns 35–6, 37–8, 130, 346, 352, 354, 357–8, 359–60, 368, 369–72, 373–4
Atlantic Charter 130–31, 383
Atlantic Wall 462
atomic and nuclear weapons 117, 429, 550, 565, 566, 571, 573–7, 598, 608
Attlee, Clement (later 1st Earl Attlee) 69
Attu island 256
Aubrey, Sergeant Tony 263
Auchinleck, General Sir Claude:
North African campaigns 129, 131–2, 134–5, 281, 283, 287;
Norway campaign 44
Auftragstaktik (mission-oriented leadership) 54
Augusta, USS 129
Aung San, U 117, 211
Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp: construction of 236;
deportations to 78, 82, 228, 236, 244, 246;
gas chambers 227–8, 228–32, 234, 236, 247, 495;
Himmler visits