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The Storm of War - Andrew Roberts [382]

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General (Sir) Miles 467, 502

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

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