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on Stalingrad 337, 341, 344;
on strategic retreats 597;
on withdrawal from Russia 522–3;
Panzer Battles 14
Memel 541
Menin 64
Mensheviks 29
Menzies, Sir Robert 210
Merchant Navy (British) 109, 360, 367, 373–4
Meretzkov, General Kirill A. 528
Merkur/Mercury, Operation 126
Mers-el-Kébir see Oran
Mersa Matruh 120, 132, 300, 301
Merville 59
Messerschmitt, Willy 446
Messerschmitts (aircraft) 445, 525;
Me-109 21, 67, 95–6, 281, 290;
Me-110 95–6, 145;
Me-262 446, 527–8, 586
Messervy, Major-General (Sir) Frank 134–5
Messina 376, 385
meteorology 177–8, 469
Metz 499, 503
Meuse, River 51, 52, 56–7, 410, 501, 502, 503, 506, 507, 591
MI5 (British security service) 464, 470
MI6 see SIS
MI19 (British military intelligence division) 492–7
Mianyang 264
Michie, Donald 372
Middleton, Major-General Troy 504
Midway (atoll) 189, 193, 252, 253, 602
Midway, battle of (1942) 198, 251, 252–7, 274
Mihailovič, Colonel Draža, 125
Milan 405–6
Milch, Field Marshal Erhard 75, 141–2, 438, 439, 446, 582, 593
Mill, John Stuart, On Liberty 596
Millin, Piper Bill 471
Milner-Barry, Stewart 349
Mindanao 567
mines: Atlantic campaigns 36, 37, 438;
Eastern Front 415;
North African campaigns 133, 135, 287–8;
Tellermines 381
Ministry of Home Security (British) 69
Ministry of Information (British) 35, 69
Minsk 153, 157, 179, 532, 533, 534
Mirabeau, Honoré Riqueti, Comte de 24
Mishkova, River 339
Missouri, USS 577
Mitchell, R. J. 96–7
Miteiriya Ridge 287, 293
Mittland 436
Mius river 175
Miyazaki, Major-General Shigesaburo 270, 273
MNDF (Japanese Manila Naval Defence Force) 278–9
Model, Field Marshal Walther: and Ardennes Offensive 503, 504, 507, 510, 595–6;
character 528–9;
created field marshal 530–31;
Eastern Front 528, 530–31, 533–4, 535–6, 539–40, 591, 595;
Nazism 492;
Operation Zitadelle (battle of Kursk) 412, 413, 417–18, 420, 421;
relations with Hitler 528, 533, 535–6, 595;
suicide 514;
Western Front 487, 501, 536, 539–40
Mogaung 266
Mogilev 533
Möhne dam 441
Mohnke, General Wilhelm 64, 505
Moletta river 398, 406
Moll, Otto 231–2
Molotov, Vyacheslav 10, 26, 29, 34, 144, 157, 195
Molotov cocktails 30, 183, 244, 330
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact see Nazi–Soviet Pact (1939)
Moltke, Helmuth von the Elder 14, 177, 543, 600
Moltke, Helmuth von the Younger 136
Moltke, Helmuth James (July Bomb Plotter) 483
Mongmit 264
Mongolia 323
Monowitz 248
Monsarrat, Nicholas, The Cruel Sea 115–16, 355–6, 359, 365, 372, 578
Monschau 504
Montbéliard 117
Montcornet 57
Monte Cassino, battles of (1944) 386–90, 391–3, 591
Montevideo 37, 358
Montgomery, Field Marshal Bernard (later 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein): and Allied advance into Germany 497, 498, 499–500, 501–2, 514, 550;
and Ardennes Offensive 504, 506, 508–9;
background and character 211, 282–3, 286, 291, 313, 377;
with BEF 56, 283, 291;
and Dieppe Raid 283;
his double 463–4;
Italian campaign 376, 377, 379, 381, 382;
Normandy campaign 461, 466–7, 478, 486, 487;
North African campaigns 135, 282, 283–4, 285–7, 289, 291–300, 310, 313, 351, 593;
relations with Americans 508–9, 514, 602
Montgomery, Elizabeth 282
Montherme 56
Montoire 80
Montry 56
Moore, Sergeant Stanley 64
Moravia 9, 242
Morgan, Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick 461
Morison, Rear-Admiral Samuel Eliot 254
Morocco 301, 303, 306, 308, 385
Morovskaya 339
Morrison, Herbert (later Baron Morrison of Lambeth) 557–8
Morshead, Major-General (Sir) Leslie ‘Ming the Merciless’ 290, 297
Morville 499
Moscow: battle of (1941–2) 151, 415;
bombing of 158, 174;
German advance on 159, 166, 170–71, 173–4, 175, 365;
German failure to take 168–70, 174–5, 176, 315, 316, 318, 599;
Hitler’s plans for capture 152, 153, 166, 315;
victory parades 534–5, 561
Moscow Defence Museum 159
Moscow, Treaty of (1940) 34, 38
Moselle 503
Mosty 16
Moulin, Jean 82–3
Moulmein 211
Mountbatten, Admiral Lord
Louis (later 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma) 269, 318–19
Mozhaysk 173
Mrocza 28
Mrs Miniver (film) 104–5
Mulberry Harbours 464, 477, 606
Müller,