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Chamberlain, Houston Stewart 220
Chamberlain, Neville: declares war on Germany 22;
fall of government 41, 45, 58;
and German invasion of Poland 19;
government of 22, 94, 109–10, 115, 431;
Munich Agreement (1938) 8, 9, 45, 605;
in War Cabinet 69
Channel Islands 82, 500
Charles XII, King of Sweden 137, 180
Charleville-Mézières 62
Charlottesville, Virginia 87
Chartres 82
Chasseurs Alpins 43
Château du Muguet 70–71
Chaudoir, Elvira 470
Chekhov, Anatoly 325
Chełmno 223
Chemnitz 454
Chennault, Major-General Claire 268
Cherbourg 72, 104, 464, 468, 478, 485–6, 499
Chernova, Tanya 326
Chernyakovsky, General Ivan 542
Cherwell, Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount 453
Chetniks 125, 383
Chiang Kai-shek 187, 190, 211, 212, 257, 268–9, 382
Chicago, USS 258
Chiefs of Staff Committee (British) 129, 328
China: American aid 212, 268;
atrocities in 268, 274–5;
and Burma campaign 212;
Churchill’s support for 257;
Communists 268;
Kuomintang Nationalists 187, 268–9;
post-war 579;
Sino-Japanese War 186, 187, 210–11, 267–9;
total casualties 267
China Air Task Force (USAAF Fourteenth Air Force) 268
Chindits 260–67
Chindwin river 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 270, 274, 567
Chiusi 403
Choltitz, General Dietrich von 489, 490, 492, 493, 495–6
Christian X, King of Denmark 41
Christison, Lieutenant-General Philip 269
chromium 213, 352, 545
Chrušciel, General Antoni 536
Chuikov, General Vasily Ivanovich 321–2, 323, 326–7, 328–34, 337–8, 343–4, 559–60
Chunking 268
Churchill, Clementine, (later Baroness Spencer-Churchill) 213, 467
Churchill, Lord Randolph 211
Churchill, (Sir) Winston:
and Allied advance into Germany 499–500, 514;
and Allied bombing campaigns 436–7, 438, 440, 441, 453, 457;
on Anglo-American alliance 199–200;
on battle of Britain 109, 351;
becomes prime minister 45–7, 57–8, 346;
and Burma campaign 257, 260, 264;
Casablanca Conference (1943) 309–10, 369, 375, 439–40, 606;
character 45–6;
and Crete campaign 127;
and death of General Sikorski 417;
declaration of war on Japan 199;
on Dunkirk evacuation 68;
on Eastern Front 427;
and fall of Singapore 205, 207;
first lord of the Admiralty 22, 45, 499;
on food shortages 500;
and German invasion of USSR 155;
and Germany First policy 130, 214;
and Great War 20, 46, 499;
and Greek campaign 123;
on Hitler’s Halt Order (May 1940) 60, 61;
and Italian campaign 375, 382–3, 389, 393, 394, 395, 397–8, 399, 403;
on July Plotters 482, 491;
as military strategist 51, 605;
on neutral countries 113;
and North African campaigns 119, 131–2, 134, 281, 286, 288–9, 292, 295, 300–301, 303, 308–9, 314;
offer of union with France 71;
opposition to early invasion of France 318;
opposition to peace negotiations with Germany 68–9;
oratory 58, 68, 85, 109, 573;
and Overlord (Allied Normandy landings) 461, 466, 485–6;
and Pacific campaign 204, 257;
Placentia Bay Conference (August 1941) 129–31, 364;
plans for invasion of Norway 44;
political career 46;
and possible invasion of Britain 90;
and punishment of German war crimes 557–8;
Quebec Conference (‘Quadrant’; 1943) 264, 375;
on Red Army 34;
relations with Brooke 594;
relations with Roosevelt 87, 89, 130, 303;
relations with Stalin 546;
support for USSR 434;
suspension of habeas corpus 109;
Teheran Conference (1943) 382–3, 403, 545;
on U-boat war 346, 351, 352, 358, 360, 369–70;
and V-1 and V-2 attacks 518;
views on the French 77;
views on Hitler 179, 314, 491, 501, 535, 559, 602;
visits France (1940) 70–71;
(1944) 485–6;
visits bombsites 102;
and war economy 111, 112;
and Warsaw Uprising (1944) 536–7;
Washington Conferences (1941–2) 134, 199, 214;
Wilderness Years 46–7;
Yalta Conference (1945) 538, 545;
The Grand Alliance 199–200;
‘The Scaffolding of Rhetoric’ 46
Ciano, Count Galeazzo 196–7, 376
Cisterna 394, 395, 396, 399, 401
Citadel, Operation see Zitadelle, Operation
Clark, Alan 50, 419, 420, 524, 548, 591, 601
Clark, Lloyd 398
Clark, General Mark: character 305, 377, 385;
Italian campaign 377, 378, 379, 380, 382, 384, 385, 388, 394, 395–6, 400–403, 404;
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