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Seaforth and Cameron Highlanders 296
Sealion, Operation 44, 90–91, 92, 108, 118
Second Air Army (Russian) 423
Second Army (British) 467, 486, 502
Second Army (German) 73, 165, 168, 170, 171, 175
Second Panzer Army 175
Second Tank Army (Russian) 535
secret agents 470
Sedan 51, 56–7, 59, 61, 76
Segré, Emilio 574
Seine, River 137, 468, 473, 487
Selassie, Emperor Haile 121
Sele river 379, 384
Senger und Etterlin, General Fridolin von 375–6, 386, 387, 388–9, 391–3, 405, 412, 591, 597
Serbia 125, 224
Sevastopol 315, 316, 410, 496, 532
Seventeenth Air Army (Russian) 423
Seventeenth Army (German) 521, 593
Seventh Army (French) 53
Seventh Army (German) 72, 471–2, 477, 505, 506
Seventh Army (Russian) 30, 34
Seventh Army (United States) 376
Seventh Fleet (United States) 565
Seventh Guards Army (Russian) 414
Seventh Panzer Army 487
Seyss-Inquart, Artur 583
Sfax 313
SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force) 465–6, 504, 508
Shakespeare, William 608
Shark (German cipher) 367–8, 373
Shaw, George Bernard 91
Shelton, Anne 104
Shere Regiment 271
Sherman (Allied tank) 285, 295, 388, 473
Sherwood Foresters 396, 399, 579
Shigemitsu, Mamoru 577
Shingle, Operation 393–7
ship production: German 3, 353–4, 355, 364;
Japanese 251;
United States 215, 251, 256, 373, 469
Shklarek, Moshe 234
Shoho (aircraft carrier) 251
Shokaku (aircraft carrier) 252
Short Stirling (bomber) 438
Short, Lieutenant-General Walter C. 189–90
Shturmovaya (Russian storming groups) 322, 330
Shuri Line 569
Siberia 221, 561, 589
Siberian Sea 149
Sichelschnitt/Sickle Cut,
Operation (Manstein Plan) 49, 51–2, 76, 410
Sicherheitsdienst see SD
Sicily 284, 307, 308;
Allied invasion (Operation Husky) 128, 309, 313, 351, 369, 375–8, 385, 424, 425, 465, 467, 606
Sidi Barrani 120, 129
Sidi-Rezegh, battle of (1941) 132
Siegfried Line (West Wall) 19, 22, 23, 48, 52, 53, 499, 501, 502–3
Siena 403
Siilasvo, Colonel Hjalmar 31, 32
Sikorski, General Władysław 26, 417
Silesia 454, 495, 542–3, 544, 554
Simon, John, 1st Viscount 145, 557, 558
Simonov, Konstantin, Days and Nights 419
Simpson, Lieutenant-General William 509, 550
Sinclair, Sir Archibald (later 1st Viscount Thurso) 558
Singapore: Changi Jail 275;
fall of 134, 201–7, 437
Sino-Japanese War 186, 187, 210–11, 267–9
Sirte, Gulf of 121
SIS (British Secret Intelligence Service; MI6) 155, 309, 348, 349, 417, 492
Sittang 211, 212
Six, Dr Frank 91
Sixteenth Army (German) 541
Sixth Army (Chinese) 212
Sixth Army (German) 55, 317, 319, 320, 324, 329, 330–31, 332, 336–7, 338–45, 520, 539
Sixth Army (Italian) 376
Sixth Army (United States) 565
Sixth Guards Army (Russian) 414
Sixth Panzer Army 505, 545, 548–9
Sixty-fourth Army (Russian) 414
Sixty-second Army (Russian) 321, 322, 329, 332, 333
Skagerrak Strait 38, 41
Skinflint, Operation 297–8
Skorzeny, Colonel Otto 405, 505
Skryabina, Yelena 172
Slavs, Nazi racial policy on 27, 140, 163, 165, 492, 590
Sledge, E. B. ‘Sledgehammer’, With the Old Breed 569–70
Sledgehammer, Operation 302
Slim, General Sir William 211–12, 269–70, 273, 274, 305, 567–8, 603
Slovakia 9, 316, 540
Slovenia 125
Smart, Air Vice-Marshal Harry 131
Smersh (Russian military counter-intelligence) 563
Śmigły-Rydz, Marshal Edward 17, 26
Smith, Leonard 363
Smith, Thomas 516
Smolensk 25, 315, 521, 532;
battle of (1941) 153, 158, 159, 165, 170
Smuts, Field Marshal Jan Christian 296, 558
snipers: Finnish 32;
Japanese 266;
Russian 325–6, 330
soap, manufactured from human corpses 522
Sobibór extermination camp 224, 233, 234, 244
Sochaux 117
Sodenstern, General Georg von 90
SOE (British Special Operations Executive) 116–17, 124
Sokolov, Lieutenant-General V. P. 340–41
Sokolovsky, General Vasily 421, 550
Sola river 230
Solomon Islands 210, 257, 260
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander 539
Somme river 51, 52, 61, 70
Somme, battles of (Great War) 390, 393
Sonderkommandos (extermination camp special units) 229–34, 245
Sorge, Richard 155
Soryu (aircraft carrier) 256
South Africa 107, 121, 221, 289, 290,