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Denmark 35, 38, 41, 44–5, 85, 574
Denmark Straits 358, 361
Desert Air Force (Allied; DAF) 284, 285, 289, 290, 292, 293, 295
‘Desert Rats’ (British 7th Armoured Division) 121, 122, 133, 134, 290, 294, 299, 305
Desert Victory (film) 283, 285
desert warfare 283–4
Deutschland (battleship) 10, 353, 358;
Deutschland Pact 1–2, 3, 11
Devers, Lieutenant-General Jacob 499
Dew, Armine 248
Diadem, Operation 400, 402
Diekmann, Major Adolf 479–80
Dieppe Raid (1942) 283, 290, 318–19, 461, 587, 603
Dietl, Captain Eduard 39
Dietrich, General Josef ‘Sepp’ 505, 507, 582
Dietrich, Otto 50
‘Dig for Victory’ campaign 109
Dill, Field Marshal Sir John 88
Dimapur 269, 270, 272, 274
Dinant 507
Dingler, Colonel H. R. 339, 341, 342
disabled, extermination of 221, 224, 496
Dittmar, Lieutenant-General Kurt 317
Djebel Kouif 312
Dnieper river 152;
Germans’ crossing of 168, 175;
Germans’ retreat to 425, 521, 522–3, 539;
Russians’ crossing of 528, 529, 532
Dniester river 529, 532
Dobbie, Lieutenant-General Sir William 285
Dolchstosslegende (stab-in-the-back myth) 484
Dollmann, General Friedrich 72
Don Front 334, 341
Don, River 316, 317, 333, 335
Donbaik 269
Donets Basin 152, 166, 168, 170
Donets river 175, 316, 409, 419, 421
Dönitz, Commander Karl: and Allied Normandy invasion 481;
background and career 352–3;
and Enigma code 350;
and German surrender 373, 560;
relations with Hitler 513;
succeeds Raeder 355, 592;
trial 583;
and U-boat campaigns 352, 353, 358, 359, 370–71, 440, 583
Doolittle, Lieutenant-Colonel Jimmy 214
Doorman, Admiral Karel 209–10
Dorsetshire, HMS 363
Dorsetshire Regiment 273
Douai 60
Dover 96
Dowding, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh (later 1st Baron Dowding) 70, 94, 95, 97, 101
Drancy transit camp 78
Dresden 455, 458;
bombing of 124, 436, 454–8
Dreyfus Affair 75
Dublin 115
Dumitrescu, General Petre 334
Dunkirk 52, 59–61, 70, 499;
evacuation (1940) 60, 63, 64–8, 69, 71, 72, 77, 104, 587, 600
Dunphie, Brigadier Charles 311
Durham Brigade 296
Dutch East Indies 186, 188, 201, 210, 213, 589
Dvina, River 157
Dvinsk 494
Dyle river 53, 55, 56, 58, 76
Dyle–Breda Line 55, 58, 76
Dynamo, Operation 64
dysentery 213, 274, 382
Dzerzhinsky, Felix 320
Dzhugashvili, First Lieutenant Yakov (Stalin’s son) 161–2
E-boats (motor torpedo boats) 36, 396, 469
Eaglesham, Renfrewshire 145
Eaker, General Ira C. 381, 439, 440
East Prussia 17, 18–19, 152, 317, 480, 534, 535, 541, 549, 554
Eben Emael fortress 55
Echternach 504
Eckhart, Dietrich 146
Eden, Anthony (later 1st Earl of Avon): on July Plotters 484;
and possible invasion of Britain 88, 91;
in Supreme War Council 71;
in War Cabinet 120, 295, 309, 370, 451, 557
Eder dam 441
Edson, Lieutenant-Colonel Merritt A. ‘Red Mike’ 259
Egypt 120, 121, 129
Eichmann, Lieutenant-Colonel Adolf 239–40, 242, 244–5, 582
Eicke, Theodor 27
Eifel forest 49
Eighteenth Army (German) 528, 541
Eighteenth Army (Russian) 175
Eighth Army Air Force (United States) 439, 440, 444, 450, 572, 604
Eighth Army (Commonwealth):
Italian campaign 376, 379, 381, 384, 400, 404;
North African campaigns 132–3, 134, 135, 281, 284, 288, 290, 292, 300, 312, 313, 314
Eighth Army (French) 72
Eighth Army (German) 23, 24
Eighth Army (Italian) 333, 335, 338
Eindhoven 502
Einstein, Albert 574
Eire: Anglo-Irish Treaty (1922) 115;
Irish servicemen in Allied forces 107;
Jews in 239;
naval bases 115;
neutrality 112, 114–16, 239
Eisenhower, General Dwight D.:
and Allied advance into Germany 497, 498, 499–500, 503, 513, 550;
and Ardennes Offensive 504, 505–6, 509–10;
background and character 304–5, 498;
Italian campaign 376, 377–8, 384, 397–8;
and liberation of Paris 489, 490;
Normandy campaign 465–6, 466–7, 469, 470, 487;
North African campaigns 302, 304, 307, 308–9, 312;
relations with Marshall 305
El Alamein see Alamein
Elbe river 498, 550
Eleventh Army (German) 316, 318, 410, 553
Eliot, T. S. 87
Elizabeth, Queen (consort of George VI; later Queen Mother) 102, 433
Elliot, Walter 68
Elliott, Denholm 355
Elliott, Private