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liberation of 245;
life in 237–8;
operation of 228–32, 234–6, 245, 582;
question of potential Allied bombing of 245–8
Australia: Japanese attacks on 201;
Japanese threat to 188, 205, 210, 252;
Jewish emigration to 221;
navy 565;
relations with Britain 210;
servicemen in Allied forces 107, 125, 206, 300, 454, 477;
7th Australian Division 127–8, 133;
8th Australian Division 204–5;
9th Australian Division 133, 290, 294
Austria: Allied air operations 381, 449;
Allied invasion plans 383, 403;
Anschluss 6, 7;
Jews in 7;
post-war 562;
Russian invasion 549
Autumn Mist, Operation see Ardennes Offensive
Avalanche, Operation 378–9
Avranches 486–7, 489
Avro Lancaster (bomber) 438
Avro Manchester (bomber) 438
Axis; Anti-Comintern Pact (1936) 5;
failure to act as close allies 140, 195, 589;
Tripartite Pact (1940) 124, 193, 589–90
Azov, Sea of 175, 176, 523
B-17 Flying Fortress (bomber) 185, 187, 208, 248, 439, 444, 455
B-29 Superfortress (bomber) 566, 569, 571, 572, 573, 575
Babi Yar ravine 226, 227
Bacon, Lieutenant Allon 350
Bad Godesberg 8
Bad Reichenhall 144
Badoglio, Marshal Pietro 124, 377, 379, 384
Baghdad 131
Bagnold, Ralph 120
Bagration, Marshal Peter 532
Bagration, Operation 532–5, 605
Bagrayan, General Ivan 542
bakeries, mobile 51, 272
Baku oilfields 139
Balaton, Lake 544, 545
Baldwin, Stanley (later 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley) 430
ball-bearings 114, 444, 445
Balme, Sub-Lieutenant David 350
Baltic Sea 173, 541, 542, 549
Baltic States 25, 153, 154, 162, 164, 534, 541, 590; see also Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania
Baranowice 222–3
Barbara Line 384
Barbarossa, Operation (German invasion of USSR): codename 146–7;
comparison with Operation Bagration 534;
ethnic cleansing of occupied territories 163–5;
German generals’ compliance with plans 141–3, 601;
German unpreparedness for winter conditions 176–80;
Hitler’s errors 140–41, 148, 149–50, 163–4, 165–6, 168–70, 177–80, 324, 588–9, 590, 599–600;
launch of 156–60;
plans for 137–54;
size of 155–6, 160–61;
Soviet unpreparedness for invasion 154–6;
and Stalingrad 315
Barbie, Klaus 83
Barce 286
Bardia 121, 129
Bari 384
Barker, John Sears, Seven Steps Down 399
Bastogne 506, 507
Bataan 208, 209;
‘Death March’ 209, 275
Batavia 210
Bath 430
Battalion 101 (German Reserve Police) 224–5
Battleaxe, Operation 128
Batyuk, Colonel Nikolai 333
Baudrillart, Alfred-Henri-Marie,
Cardinal-Archbishop of Paris 150
Baumbach, General Werner 430
bauxite 351, 545
Bayerlein, Fritz 293
Bayeux 488
Bayreuth 220
Baytown, Operation 379
BBC 37, 65, 437, 471
Beaufre, General André 53, 57, 59, 75–6
Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, 1st Baron 92, 95, 98, 145, 559
Beck, General Ludwig 410
Becklingen 498
Beda Fomm, battle of (1941) 121–2, 123
Beerhall Putsch (1923) 16, 138, 146, 586
Beevor, Antony 554
BEF (British Expeditionary Force): first 22, 53, 54, 59–60, 62–3, 586, 587;
second 71, 72–3; see also Dunkirk evacuation
Belchem, Lieutenant-Colonel
Ronald 122
Belden, Jack 378–9
Belfast, HMS 36
Belgium: Allied air raids on 451;
armed forces 55, 56;
German forces stationed in 463, 473;
German invasion 48–9, 53, 55, 56, 60, 136;
German occupation 85;
Jews in 78;
neutrality 22, 49, 52–3;
servicemen in Allied forces 107, 477;
surrender 65, 70, 71;
V-weapon attacks on 518, 519
Belgorod 414, 416, 418
Belgrade 124, 430, 540
Bell, George, Bishop of Chichester 456
Bellows, Signal Sergeant James 474–5
Belorussia 25, 534, 590, 591
Below, Maria von 446
Below, Nicolaus von 62, 446, 521
Benghazi 121, 123, 127, 129, 133, 284, 286–7
Bennett, General Gordon 206
Bennett, Private Paul G. 377
Bentley Priory, Middlesex 94
Beobachtungdienst (German radio monitoring service) 367–8
Berchtesgaden 8, 50, 91, 146, 177, 472
Berdyansk 175
Bergen 39, 40, 41
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp 476, 576
Berghof (Hitler’s Alpine retreat) 91, 146–7, 480
Bergues 60
beri-beri 274
Beria, Lavrenti 25, 158, 162, 550, 600
Berlin: Allied advance on 550;
battle of (1945) 550–54, 559–60;
bombing of 100, 102, 429, 431, 439, 440, 446, 447, 450–51, 454,