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Hitler’s bunker 551;
Hitler’s proposed rebuilding of 114;
Kroll Opera House 92;
Ploetzensee Prison 482;
Russian advance on 521, 532, 545, 549–50;
Spandau Prison 146
Berne 546
Bernhard Line 384
Besançon 113
Bessarabia 154
Bethe, Hans 574
Béthouart, General Antoine 43
Béthune 60
Bevin, Ernest 398
Bezymyanny (‘Nameless’ town) 182
Białystok 26, 158, 222, 244, 534
Bibbiena 403
Bidault, Georges 490
Bigamy, Operation 286–7
Biggin Hill 99
Billotte, General Gaston 56, 59
Bir Hacheim 133, 134
Birkenau see Auschwitz-Birkenau
Birmingham 91, 102, 103
Bisley 304
Bismarck, Prince Otto von 57
Bismarck (battleship) 351, 353, 360–64
Bismarck Archipelago 210
Bizerta 307, 314
‘Black Book’ 90–91
Black, Conrad 140, 193
Black Forest 35, 431
Blaker, Captain Jim 267
Blamey, General Sir Thomas 126
Blanchard, General Georges 53
Blaskowitz, General Johannes 23
Bletchley Park (British Government Code and Cypher School) 99, 126, 298, 348, 349–51, 363, 368, 369, 417, 598
Blitz 100–104, 105, 106, 108, 110, 430, 458, 459–60, 538, 576
Blitzkrieg tactics 15, 17, 19, 21, 25, 47, 57, 154, 205, 418, 597
Blokhin, Vasily 25
Blomberg, Field Marshal Werner von 1, 2, 3, 5, 11, 18, 194;
forcibly retired 6–7, 75, 143
Blondi (Hitler’s Alsatian) 559
Blood Purge (Night of the Long Knives) 1, 16, 242
Bloody Ridge, battle of (1942) 259
Blücher (cruiser) 41
Blue, Operation 315–18
Blumentritt, General Günther 90, 141, 462–3, 473, 479, 497, 584, 593, 597, 600
Bobruysk 533
Bock, Colonel-General Fedor von: created field marshal 75;
invasion of Poland 18, 21;
invasion of USSR 139, 151, 153, 162, 166–7, 168–70, 316, 599;
relations with Hitler 169–70;
sacked 316, 411
Bode, Captain Howard D. 258
Bohemia 9, 242
Böhlen 435, 436
Bolero, Operation 466
Bolshevism: Hitler’s loathing of 10, 148, 150;
mythical Jewish–Bolshevik conspiracy 219, 227, 249, 509, 547;
and nationalism 163–4;
Stalin and 29–30
Bône 307
Bongyaung 262
booby-traps 31, 266, 280, 292–3
Boot, Das (film) 373
Bór-Kormowski, General Tadeusz 536, 537, 538
Bordeaux 62, 78
Bormann, Martin 136, 146, 177, 221–2, 360, 363, 482, 583
Borneo 209, 213, 570
Borodino 171, 416
Bose, Subhas Chandra 206, 269
Bosnia 125
Bosquet, René 78
Boulogne 52, 63–4
bouncing (Upkeep) bombs 441
Bradley, General Omar:
and Allied advance into Germany 498, 499, 514, 550;
and Ardennes Offensive 504, 506, 507, 508–9;
character 305, 377;
Italian campaign 377;
and liberation of Paris 490;
Normandy campaign 378, 467, 475, 476, 486, 487;
North African campaigns 312, 314;
relations with British 508–9, 602
Brandenberger, General Erich 506
Brauchitsch, Field Marshal Walther von: created field marshal 75;
Great War service 20;
invasion of France 60, 63, 600;
invasion of USSR 141, 169, 180;
relations with Hitler 328, 590, 600;
support for Mediterranean strategy 149;
and war crimes 493
Braun, Eva 446, 558–9, 560, 562–3
Braun, Werner von 574
Braunau 559
Bravado, Operation 469
Brazil 385
Breda 53, 55, 58, 76
Brereton, Major-General Lewis H. 208
Breslau 542–3
Brest 72, 73, 358, 363, 440, 468, 592
Brest-Litovsk 26
Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of (1918) 148, 600
Brevity, Operation 281
Briare 71
Bridgeman, Robert, 2nd Viscount 60
Briggs, Major-General Raymond 291
Bristol 91, 102
Bristow, Tom 67
Britain: American aid 87, 89, 112, 194;
Anglo-German Naval Agreement (1935) 9;
Blitz 100–104, 105, 106, 108, 110, 430, 576;
conscription introduced 9, 109;
declaration of war on Germany 22;
declaration of war on Japan 199;
economy 109–10, 111–12;
Home Front 109–112, 117–18;
imports 351–2, 374;
Jewish emigration to 221;
planned invasion of 44, 69, 87, 88, 90–91, 92, 100, 108, 118;
possibility of peace negotiations with Germany 68–9, 89, 92, 602;
public morale 103–5, 108, 118, 458, 517;
total civilian losses 603;
V-1 and V-2 attacks on 110, 485, 498, 514–19
Britain, battle of (1940) 70, 93–101, 102, 105–9, 156, 351, 587, 600, 602
British Army: failings of 602–3;
losses 300, 376, 603;
rations for 51, 500;
relations with Navy 42; see also BEF; individual