The Storm of War - Andrew Roberts [379]
British Empire/Commonwealth:
contribution to war effort 87, 107, 269, 290, 300, 603;
dissolution of Empire 561, 579, 604;
endurance of Commonwealth 579;
Hitler’s admiration for 5, 90, 275
British Expeditionary Force see BEF
Brittain, Vera 90
Brittany 477, 487, 489
Broadhurst, Air Chief Marshal (Sir) Harry 467
Broadway, HMS 350
Broich, Lieutenant-General Fritz von 495
Brook, Norman (later 1st Baron Normanbrook) 557
Brooke, Field Marshal Sir Alan (later 1st Viscount Alanbrooke): and Allied advance into Germany 499, 514;
and Allied bombing of Germany 437–8, 440;
appointed chief of Imperial General Staff 132, 142;
background and character 302;
with BEF 55, 65, 72;
on the Great War 603;
and Italian campaign 376, 400;
and North African campaign 132, 281, 295–6;
opposition to early invasion of France 302, 318;
and Overlord (Allied Normandy landings) 466, 485, 606;
relations with Americans 302, 303, 498;
relations with Churchill 594;
Yalta Conference (1945) 454
Brown, Tommy (NAAFI assistant) 368, 369
Browning, Christopher 225
Browning, Lieutenant-General F. A. M. ‘Boy’ 502
Brownshirts (Sturmabteilung; SA) 1, 28
Bruges 60
Bruhn, Major-General Johannes 495
Brunei 565
Bruns, Major-General Walther 496–7
Brussels 56, 499
Bryansk 171
Bryansk Front 421
Bucharest 539
Buchenwald concentration camp 115
Bucknall, Lieutenant-General G. C. 467
Buckner, Lieutenant-General Simon Bolivar 569, 572
Budapest 539, 541
Budenny, General Semyon 154
Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) 579
Bug, River 154, 529, 530, 534
Bulgaria 521, 540, 561
Bulge, battle of the (1944–5) 505–10, 512, 530, 545; see also Ardennes Offensive
Bulldog, HMS 350
Bureau of Yards and Construction (United States) 469
Burgis, Lawrence 123, 309, 397
Burma: Allied reconquest 274, 567–8, 603;
Chindit expeditions 260–67;
fall of 210, 211–13, 268;
Japanese occupation 201;
and Japanese U-Go offensive 269–70, 274, 568;
nationalists 117, 211;
oilfields 186, 211;
SOE operations in 117
Burma Road 210–11, 212, 269, 567
Busch, Field Marshal Ernst 75, 533, 595
Busse, General Theodor 553
Butcher, Harry 312
Bydgoszcz 17, 28, 29
Byrnes, James F. 198
Bzura river 24
Cactus, Operation 257–8
Cadogan, Sir Alexander ‘Alec’ 484
Caen 246, 470–71, 472, 476, 478, 486
Caesar Line 400
Cairo 134, 261, 281, 285–6, 300, 588
Calais 52, 64, 463, 595
California 185, 187, 191, 200, 204, 213
Calvert, Brigadier Michael 262, 265, 266
Cambrai 61
Cambridgeshire, HMT 72
Camino, Mount 385, 386
Camm, Sydney 96
Campbell, Major-General Jock 133
Campo di Carne 398
Campoleone 394, 395, 396–7
Canada: air force 454;
contribution to war effort 454;
navy 358, 366, 367;
possibility of withdrawing British forces to 88–9;
servicemen in Allied forces 107, 290, 318, 319, 447, 454, 475, 477;
9th Canadian Infantry Brigade 476;
Canadian First Army 468, 486, 499
Canaris, Admiral Wilhelm 18, 196, 241, 581
Canberra, HMAS 258
cannibalism 172
Cape of Good Hope 149, 285, 376
Cape Hanko 29
Cape Matapan, battle of (1941) 351
Cape San Augustin 567
Caporetto, battle of (1917) 59
Carentan 478
Carlyle, Thomas, Frederick the Great 562
Carpathian mountains 16, 17, 542
Carter, Leading Seaman C. G. ‘Nick’ 43
Carton de Wiart, Major-General Sir Adrian 42
Carver, Field Marshal Michael (later Baron Carver) 122, 132, 133–4, 291, 297–8, 299, 300, 303, 304, 411
Casablanca 30, 306, 308, 311
Casablanca Conference (1943) 309–10, 369, 375, 439–40, 606
Casey, Richard 417, 453
Caspian Sea 315, 319, 320, 588
Cassino 376, 386–7, 388; see also Monte Cassino, battles of
Catania 376
Catholic Church 78, 85, 90, 390–91; see also Vatican
Caucasus: German plans to capture 285, 316–17, 319, 337, 588–9, 593–4;
oilfields 154, 316, 319;
Russian securing of 523
Cavalry Corps (French) 55, 59
Cazalet, Victor 417
CBO (Allied Combined Bomber Offensive) 439–40, 442, 454, 457–9, 528, 533, 600
censorship; Britain 35, 108, 436–7;
Eire 115
Central Front (German) 542
Central Front (Russian) 412, 414, 418
Cesarani, David 585
Ceylon 195, 276,