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Lusitania, RMS 188
Lütjens, Vice-Admiral Günther 359
Lüttwitz, General Heinrich von 506
Lützow (battleship) 10, 11
Luxembourg 52, 55, 73, 504, 506
Luzon 205, 208, 260, 565, 567, 570, 573
Lvov 18, 26, 162, 244, 246, 534
Lyme Regis 92, 93
Lympne 96, 99
Lynd, Robert Wilson 69
Lynn, (Dame) Vera 104
Lyon 73, 82
Lyudnikov, Colonel L. 329
M-30 (Russian howitzer) 425
MacArthur, General Douglas 207, 208–9, 211, 305, 565, 568, 572–3, 577
McAuliffe, Brigadier-General Anthony C. 506
McBeath, Lieutenant-Commander John 104
McCain, Vice-Admiral John 565–6
McCloy, John 248
McCreery, Major-General Sir Richard 379, 404
MacDonald, Ramsay 4
Macedonia 125
Machiavelli, Niccolò, The Prince 573
Machinato Line 569
MacIntyre, Captain Donald 357
Mackensen, Field Marshal August von 75
Mackensen, General Eberhard von 394, 398, 405
Mackenzie, (Sir) Compton 270
Mackesy, Major-General Pierse 42
McNair, Lieutenant-General Lesley J. 486
Madagascar 84;
Madagascar Plan 221–2, 583
Magdeburg 563
Magic (cipher decrypts) 190, 347
Maginot, André 52
Maginot Line 52–3, 154, 202, 416
Maine, USS 188
Maisky, Ivan 366
Maison Blairon 62, 587
Malacca Straits 571
Malan, Adolf ‘Sailor’ 96
Malaparte, Curzio, Kaputt 179, 408
malaria 209, 212, 259, 266, 274
Malaya 188, 201, 202–4, 206, 207, 210, 568, 602
Maleme 126
Malinovsky, General Rodion 531, 549
Mallinson, Allan 455
Malmédy 505
Malta 127, 132, 149, 284–5, 300, 380, 588, 602
Mamerdov, Konstantin 530
Manchester, Avro (bomber) 438
Manchuria 274, 555
Mandalay 212, 262, 567
Mandel, Georges 80
Manhattan Project 573, 574
Manila 208, 278–9, 280
Manila Naval Defence Force (Japanese; MNDF) 278–9
Manipur 269
Mannerheim, Field Marshal Baron Carl von 31, 34
Mannerheim Line 30, 33, 34, 182
Manstein, Field Marshal Erich von: background and career 20, 409–10;
character 410–11;
created field marshal 316;
Eastern Front 316, 318, 334, 335, 336, 337, 338–9, 344–5, 409, 410, 412, 425, 521, 522, 528, 530, 590, 591;
as military strategist 410, 411, 530;
Operation Zitadelle (battle of Kursk) 412, 413, 416, 424–5, 601;
relations with Hitler and Nazis 76, 410, 521, 522, 530, 590, 595, 600;
Sichelschnitt (Sickle Cut) manoeuvre 49, 51–2, 53, 76, 410;
trial 530, 593;
and war crimes 227, 584, 593;
Lost Victories 584
Manstein, Lieutenant-General Georg von 409
Manstein Plan (Operation Sichelschnitt/Sickle Cut) 49, 51–2, 53, 76, 410
Manston 99
Manteuffel, General Baron Hasso-Eccard von 57, 504, 505, 507, 591
Mao Songsan Ridge 274
Mao Zedong 268
Maoris 296
Maquis (French Resistance) 79, 81, 82–3, 85, 117, 470, 471, 489;
reprisals against 479–80
March, Cyril 435
Mareth Line 301, 310, 313
Mariana Islands 105, 475, 575
Markelov (Russian colonel) 328
Market Garden, Operation 502, 506
Marne river 499
Marseille 56
Marshall, General George C.:
appointed Army chief of staff 142;
background and character 302;
and dropping of atomic bombs 572–3, 576;
expansion of armed forces 195;
and Germany First policy 564, 605;
and Italian campaign 375, 403, 449;
and North African campaigns 303, 307, 312;
and Overlord (Allied Normandy landings) 466, 469;
and Pacific campaign 568, 572–3;
and Pearl Harbor 193;
relations with British 302, 303;
relations with Eisenhower 305;
relations with Roosevelt 594;
relations with Truman 547;
support for early invasion of France 302, 303, 310, 318
Marshall Islands 191
Martuba 300
Mash, Private Bob 120
Mass Observation (polling organization) 105
‘master race’ 19, 27, 44, 76, 140, 394
Matilda (British tank) 54, 128, 525
Matsuoka, Yosuke 140, 197, 589
Mauriac, Jean 488
Maus (German tank) 525
Mawlu 265
Maxwell, Brigadier D. S. 206
Mechelen-sur-Meuse 48, 56
Mechili 121, 127
Medmenham 348
Meiktila 212, 566, 567
Mein Kampf (Hitler) 15–16, 19, 26, 89–90, 135, 138, 144, 195–6, 220, 275, 524
Mellenthin, Major-General Frederick von: on invasion of Belgium, France and Holland 53, 54, 55, 73;
on invasion of Poland 17–18, 24, 27;
on invasion of Yugoslavia 124–5;
on Moltke 14;
on North African campaigns 284, 589;
on Operation Zitadelle