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trial 380, 497, 593
Keynes, John Maynard, Baron 112
Khaldei, Yevgeny 560–61
Khalkin Gol, battle of (1939) 182, 323
Kharkov 175, 315, 336, 409, 412, 425, 427, 521, 522, 591
Khrushchev, Nikita 556
Khudyakov, Air Marshal Sergei 454
Kiantajärvi, Lake 32
Kidney Ridge 287, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 302
Kiel Canal 469
Kiev 153, 159, 165–6, 168, 170, 226, 528, 590–91, 592
Kimmel, Admiral Husband 189–90, 191, 192, 193
King, Admiral Ernest J. 195
King George V, HMS 363
King’s Liverpool Regiment 264, 266–7
King’s Own Scottish Borderers 500
King’s Royal Rifle Corps 294
King’s Shropshire Light Infantry 396
Kinkaid, Admiral Thomas 565
Kirby, Major-General S. W. 267
Kirkhil ponies 182
Kiska island 256
Kitchens, James H. III 247
Kittel, Lieutenant-General Heinrich 494–5
Kleist, Field Marshal Paul von:
on Clausewitz 167, 596;
Eastern Front 175, 316–17, 319, 338, 531;
Great War service 20;
invasion of Belgium, France and Holland 56, 57, 60–61, 63;
and North African campaigns 285;
promotion of 75;
relations with Hitler 63, 167, 317, 511, 524–5, 531, 583;
trial 524, 531, 583;
and war crimes 497
Kluge, Field Marshal Günther
‘Hans’: created field marshal 75;
Eastern Front 166, 316, 411, 595;
Great War service 20;
invasion of France 70;
and July Plotters 482, 501;
Operation Zitadelle (battle of Kursk) 413, 416, 421, 424, 601;
suicide 501;
Western Front 486, 487, 491, 539, 595
Knochlein, Captain Fritz 64
Knox, Alfred Dilwyn (‘Dilly’) 349
Knox, Frank 193
Kobe 214
Koch, H. A. 346–7
Koenig, Brigadier-General Marie-Pierre 290
Kohima, battle of (1944) 267, 269, 270–74
Kolbe, Father Maksymilian 237
Kolberg 549
Köln (cruiser) 40
Komet (cruiser) 149
Komsomol (Russian Young Communist League) 326
Kondor (bomber) 354–5, 360
Konev, General Ivan 154, 414, 418, 424–5, 426, 529, 531, 542, 543, 550, 601, 602
Königgrätz 553
Königsberg 549
Kopets, Lieutenant-General Ivan 156
Korean ‘comfort’ women 275
Korsun, battle of (1944) 529
Kosmodemyanskaya, Zoya 159–60
Kota Bharu 202
Kotin, Josef 161
Kovno 226
Kraków 17, 227, 244
Kraków Army 23
Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star newspaper) 320
Krebs, General Hans 560, 596
Krebs (trawler) 350
Kretschmer, Captain Otto 354, 357
Kriegsmarine (German navy):
and Allied Normandy landings 468–9;
evacuation of Baltic ports (1945) 549;
French bases 358, 370;
invasion of Poland 21;
losses 37, 44, 358, 363–4, 468, 549;
Norway campaign 41, 44, 92, 358;
and planned invasion of Britain 92, 100; see also Atlantic, battle of the; U-boats
Kripo (German criminal police) 242
Kristallnacht 9, 221
Kristiansand 39
Krivosheev, General G. F. 556
Kronstadt 152
Krueger, General Walter 565
Krylov, General Nikolai I. 322
Kuban bridgehead 523
Kubinka, Museum of Tank Construction 525
Kubi?, Jan 242–3
Küchler, Field Marshal Georg von 75, 528
Kuhl, Private Charles H. 377
Kuhmo, battle of (1940) 34
Kuntsevo 157
Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalists) 187, 268
Kurile islands 190
Kurland 541, 542
Kursk 411, 548;
battle of (1943) 409, 411–16, 417–28, 458, 520–21, 525, 526, 594, 600, 601, 605
Kurusu, Saburo 190
Küstrin 548
Kutno, battle of (1939) 24
Kutrzeba, General Tadeusz 24
Kutuzov, Michael 174
Kutuzov, Operation 421
Kuybyshev 182
KV-1, 2 and 85 (Russian tanks) 161, 425, 526
Kvaternik, Marshal Slavko 160
Kwai, River 275
Kwajalein 260
Kyushu 569, 573
La Ferla, General Francesco 296
La Ferté 56
La Roche-Guyon 471, 472
La Rochelle 358
La Spezia 380, 403
Łaaodź Army (Polish) 23
Laborde, Admiral Jean 307
Labour Party 45, 69
Ladbergen 436
Ladoga, Lake 173
Lancaster, Avro (bomber) 438, 455
Lancastria, RMS 73
Lang, Captain E. A. R. 66
Langbehn, Julius 220
Langsdorff, Captain Hans 37
Laon 59
Larvik 39
Lashio 212
Latvia 29, 494–5, 514, 541, 549, 561
Laval, Pierre 74, 76, 79, 80, 81
Lavarack, Major-General J. D. 128
Laverty, Lieutenant-Colonel John ‘Danny’ 271
Lawrence, T. E. ‘of Arabia’ 260
Le Havre 469
Le Kef 311
Le Mans 487
Leach, Captain John 362
leafleting 22, 35, 69, 89, 150, 339
League of Anti-Semites 220
League of Nations