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Lebensraum (living space) 19, 27, 90, 135, 138, 139, 144, 163–5, 188, 238, 579, 580, 590
Leclerc, General (Vicomte Jacques-Philippe de Hautecloque) 488, 489–90
Lecussan, Joseph 81
Ledo 265, 269
Lee (American tank) 198
Lee, General Raymond 101, 102
Leeb, Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von 75, 153, 227, 410
Leese, Lieutenant-General (Sir) Oliver 287, 290, 291, 292, 295, 296, 384, 404
Legnano, battle of (1176) 146
Lehmann, Arnim 552
Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler (Waffen-SS) 64, 419, 424
Leidig, Theodor 223–4
Leigh, Vivien 104
Leigh-Mallory, Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford 433–4, 449
Leipzig 454
Lemp, Julius 350
Lend-Lease scheme 87, 130, 411, 551
Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich 174
Leningrad: bombing of 171, 172, 173;
Hitler’s plans to capture 152, 153, 166, 315, 318;
siege of 172–3, 176, 315, 323, 528
Leningrad Front 528
Leninism 163
Lens 60
Leopold III, King of the Belgians 56, 65, 85
Lethbridge Commission 568
Levi, Primo 219, 229, 232, 235, 237–8
Lewinski, General Eduard 409
Lewis, Lieutenant-Commander R. C. 36
Lexington, USS 189, 251–2, 565
Ley, Robert 63, 222, 583
Leyte 565
Leyte Gulf, battle of (1944) 565
Ležáky 243
Liberal Party 45
Liberty ships 277–8, 469
Libya 81, 123, 124, 125, 127, 149, 285, 290
Licata 376
Liddell Hart, Sir Basil 39, 57, 75, 143, 167, 227, 424, 463, 478, 530, 596
Lidice 243
Lightfoot, Operation 287, 295
Lille 52, 54, 64
Lindbergh, Charles A. 199
Lindemann, Captain Ernst 361
Lingayen Gulf 208, 567
Liri Valley 384, 386, 387–8, 389
List, Field Marshal Wilhelm 56, 75, 316, 317, 592, 593, 594
Lithuania 17, 26, 29, 226, 541, 561
Little Saturn, Operation 338
Littorio Division 294
Litvinov, Maxim 366
Liverpool 88, 91, 102, 103, 576
‘living space’ policy see Lebensraum
Llewellyn, Richard, How Green was my Valley 379
Lloyd-Davies, Lieutenant-Commander Cromwell 468
Lloyd George, David (later 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor) 91
Lockard, Private Joseph 185
Łódź 17, 223
Löhr, General Alexander 126
Loire, River 70, 468, 479
Lokoty Self-Governing District 164
Lombard League 146
Lombard-Hobson, First Lieutenant Sam 66
London: Blitz 100–104, 105, 106, 108, 458, 459–60, 538, 576;
V-1 and V-2 attacks on 515, 516, 517–18;
victory celebrations 604
London Gazette 106–7, 406
London Treaty (1935) 353, 360
Londonderry 370
Long Range Desert Group (British) 120, 286–7
Longcloth, Operation 262–4, 265, 269
Lopez, Pedro 275
Lorient 358, 440
Los Alamos 574, 598, 608
Lothian, Philip Kerr, 11th Marquis of 4, 89
Louis XIV, King of France 86
Louisiana (tanker) 293
Louvain 430
Lovat, Simon Fraser, 15th Lord 471
Löwenfeld, Dorothea von 360
Lowry, Rear-Admiral Frank 394
Loyal Regiment 579
Lübeck 434
Lublin 23, 26, 104, 224, 225, 534
Lubomirski, Lieutenant Prince Eugene 536
Lucas, Major-General John 393, 394, 395–6
Lucy (Soviet spy ring) 155, 417
Ludendorff, General Erich 16
Ludendorff Bridge 513, 596
Lufthansa 177
Luftwaffe (German air force):
Allied bombing of installations 440, 442, 445, 446–7, 453, 476;
and Allied Combined Bomber Offensive 600;
and Allied Normandy landings 468, 476;
announcement of existence of 4;
battle of Britain 92–5, 97–101, 105–7, 156;
battle of Kursk 416, 418, 423;
battle of Stalingrad 321, 323, 326;
bombing of Britain 100–101, 102–3, 516;
co-operation with Panzer divisions 51–2;
and Dunkirk evacuation 64, 65, 66–7;
on Eastern Front 532–3, 542;
intelligence division 98, 587;
invasion of Belgium, France and Holland 51–2, 54, 55, 57, 59, 61–2, 74, 430, 587;
invasion of Crete 126, 127;
invasion of Poland 21, 51, 430;
invasion of USSR 156, 170, 177;
invasion of Yugoslavia 124;
Italian campaign 390, 405;
losses 44, 66, 97, 105, 108, 127, 423, 458–9;
Mediterranean campaign 128;
morale 106;
North African campaigns 284, 289, 307;
Norway campaign 39, 40, 41, 44;
pre-war expansion 3, 349–50;
Spanish Civil War 4–5;
and Stalingrad 335–6, 337, 339, 340, 587;
and tank warfare 527–8;
and Warsaw Uprising (1944) 537
Luga river 157
Lumsden, Lieutenant-General Herbert 287, 291, 293
Lunghi, Hugh 454
Lungo, Mount 385, 386