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Clausewitz, Carl von 167–8, 169, 283, 503, 543, 596
Clothier, Second Lieutenant Neil N. 499
Clyde, River 102, 361, 566
coal 213, 598
Cobra, Operation 486–7
Cocteau, Jean 79
code-breaking 99, 190, 252, 256, 346–51, 367–9, 372, 598; see also Bletchley Park; Enigma; Magic; Ultra
Cold War 325, 330, 343, 604
Colleville-sur-Mer 477
Collins, Major-General Joseph Lawton 467, 478, 486
Cologne 432, 438–9
Colombo 201, 276
Colossus II (computer) 372
Colville, (Sir) John ‘Jock’ 89
Combined Bomber Offensive
(Allied; CBO) 439–40, 442, 454, 457–60, 528, 533, 600
Combined Chiefs of Staff Committee (Anglo-American) 302, 319, 440
Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre (CSDIC; Trent Park) 492–7, 585
Communist International, Third 5
Como, Lake 405
Compass, Operation 121
Compiègne 74, 91
concentration camps (Russian) 27
concentration and extermination camps (German) 219, 222, 223–4, 495, 514;
liberation of 245;
operation of 228–38, 245;
question of potential Allied bombing of 245–8;
revolts in 232–3; see also Auschwitz-Birkenau; Bergen-Belsen; Buchenwald; Dachau; Sobibór; Stutthof; Theresianstadt; Treblinka
Condor Legion 4
Coningham, Air Vice-Marshal (Sir) Arthur 289
conscription: Britain 9, 109;
Germany 4;
USSR 156–7
Conservative Party 45
Cooper, Alfred Duff (later 1st Viscount Norwich) 76
copper 213, 351, 364, 545
Coral Sea, battle of (1942) 251–2, 253
Corap, General André 53, 56, 57, 59, 76, 77
Corinth Canal 125
Cork and Orrery, William Boyle, 12th Earl of 42
Coronet, Operation 573
Corregidor 208, 209
Corrèze 479
Corsica 309, 375, 376, 386
COSSAC (Chief of Staff to Supreme Allied Commander) 461, 466
Cossacks 26, 164
Cotentin peninsula 467, 477
Coulommiers 56
Courageous, HMS 36
Coventry 105, 430, 576
Coventry, HMS 286
Coward, (Sir) Noël 90–91
Cramer, General Hans 284
Crerar, Lieutenant-General Henry 468, 499
Crete 123, 125–7, 134, 149, 587, 602
Creti river 384
Crimea: German advances in 176, 410;
Hitler’s plans for 166–7, 521;
Jews in 493, 495–6;
Russian recapture of 316, 521, 532, 593
Crimean Tatars 164
Cripps, Sir Stafford 155, 557
Croatia 125, 344
Crocker, General (Sir) John 467
Cromwell, Oliver 109
Crossman, Richard 433
Croydon 518
Cruel Sea, The (Monsarrat) 115–16
Crusader (Allied tank) 285
Crusader, Operation 132–3
Crusades 146
Crutchley, Rear-Admiral Victor 258
Crüwell, General Ludwig 493
CSDIC (British Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre; Trent Park) 492–7, 585
Cumberland, HMS 37
Cunningham, General Sir Alan 121, 126, 283
Cunningham, Admiral Sir Andrew (later Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope) 126–7, 351, 380, 451, 486
Currie, Brigadier John 298, 303
Cyprus 588
Cyrenaica 121, 127, 133
Czechoslovakia: Czech
servicemen in Allied forces 107;
German annexation of Sudetenland 6, 7–8;
German invasion 9, 17, 147;
Hungarian annexation of Southern Slovakia 9;
massacres in 243;
post-war 561
Czestochowa 244
D-Day landings (6 June 1944) 465, 467–8, 470–78;
advance preparations for 351, 383, 393, 450–51, 461–72;
German reaction 476–8, 479–80, 533, 588, 594–5;
Gold beach 467, 476;
Juno beach 467, 476;
Omaha beach 464, 467, 473–6, 477;
Sword beach 467, 475, 476;
Utah beach 464, 467, 473, 474
Dachau concentration camp 100, 113, 237
DAF (Allied Desert Air Force) 284, 285, 289, 290, 292, 293–4, 295
Dahlem 550, 555, 608
Daily Herald 130
Daily Mail 3, 51
Daily Telegraph 464, 558
Dakar 84, 461
Daladier, Edouard 59, 605
Dalton, Hugh (later Baron Dalton) 116, 117
‘Dambuster’ raids 441
Danant 51
Daniels, Josephus 187
Dansey, Claude 155
Danube, River 540, 541
Danzig 18, 19, 21, 484, 522, 549
Darlan, Admiral Jean-François 80, 84, 197, 306, 308–9
Darnard, Joseph 81
Darwin 201
Davidson, Lieutenant-Colonel Howard C. 199
Davies, Norman 538
Dawe, Leonard 464
Dawley, Major-General Ernest 379
de Gaulle, Charles see Gaulle, Charles de
De Ruyter, RNNS 209
de Valera, Eamon 114–15
Deere, Air Commodore Alan ‘Al’ 99
Degrelle, Léon 85
‘Demolitions on Reich Territory’ order (Hitler’s; 1945) 547–8, 596
Dempsey,