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The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945

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by Rick Atkinson


  German Eleventh Army

  German 11th Panzer Division

  German Twelfth Army

  German 12th Infantry Division (Wild Buffaloes)

  German 12th SS Panzer Division (Hitler Youth, Murder Division)

  German Fifteenth Army

  German 17th SS Panzer Grenadier Division

  German Nineteenth Army

  German 21st Panzer Division

  German 25th Army

  German 26th Volksgrenadier

  German XLVII Panzer Corps

  German 49th Infantry Division

  German LVII Panzer Corps

  German LVIII Corps

  German 58th Panzer Corps

  German LXVII Corps

  German LXXIV Corps

  German LXXXI Corps

  German 84th Corps

  German 85th Corps

  German 89th Infantry Division

  German 116th Panzer Division

  German 150th Armored Brigade

  German 198th Division

  German 275th Division

  German 352nd Infantry Division

  German 716th Infantry Division

  German Afrika Korps

  German Air Fleet Three

  German Air Ministry

  German Army Group B

  surrender of

  German Army Group C

  German Army Group Center

  German Army Group G

  surrender of

  German Army Group H

  German Army Group Oberrhein

  German demolitions

  German Luftwaffe

  Bulge and

  command problems

  fuel shortages and

  glide bombs and

  losses

  German OB West (HQ)

  German Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW, high command)

  German Panzer Group West

  renamed Fifth Panzer Army

  German Panzer Lehr Division

  German paratroopers

  German SS

  Baugnez massacre and

  Buchenwald and

  concentration camps and

  death of FDR and

  liberation of Paris and

  MARKET GARDEN and

  German Volksgrenadiers

  German Volkssturm Home Guard

  German Waffen-SS troops

  German Wehrmacht. See also specific individuals, locations, and military units

  decline of

  liberation of Paris and

  retreat of

  surrender of

  after V-E Day

  Germany. See also specific individuals, locations, and military units

  Allied propaganda and

  Allies first cross into

  bombing of

  “bridge psychosis” and

  casualties and

  civilians under occupation

  December 1944 position of

  early plan for drive on

  industry

  January 1945 position of

  looting of

  Normandy defeat and

  postwar occupation of

  scientists in

  search for missing soldiers in

  Soviet invasion of

  Stalin and reparations from

  surrender of

  Third Reich, after V-E Day

  transportation system

  war crimes and

  women in

  Gerow, Maj. Gen. Leonard T.

  Geyr von Schweppenburg, Gen. Leo Freiherr

  GI Bill

  Gide, André

  Gielgud, John

  Giessen

  First and Third Army meet at

  Gill, Brendan

  Gillem, Maj. Gen. Alvan C., Jr.

  glide bombs

  gliders

  Goebbels, Joseph

  Goethe, Johann W. von

  Going My Way (film)

  Gold Beach

  Golden, Capt. Jack

  Gone with the Wind (Mitchell)

  GOODWOOD, Operation

  Gooseberries

  Göring, Hermann

  Gorky, Maxim

  Gothic Line

  Goya, Francisco de

  Graham, Maj. Gen. Sir Miles

  Grand Hotel (Baum)

  Granville

  Graves Registration units

  Grave

  Gray, J. Glenn

  Greece

  GREIF, Operation

  GRENADE, Operation

  Grenoble

  Groesbeek

  Groesbeek Ridge

  Groves, Lt. Gen. Leslie R.

  Guadalcanal

  Guam

  Guderian, Heinz

  Gustav Line

  Gypsies

  Haardt Mountains

  Haile Selassi, Emperor of Ethiopia

  Haislip, Maj. Gen. Wade

  Hall, Rear Adm. John L.

  Hallock, Lt. Joseph R.

  Hamburg

  fall of

  firebombing of

  Hamburger, Philip

  Hamlet (Shakespeare)

  Hamm

  Hammelburg POW camp

  Hammett, Dashiell

  “Handbook for Military Government in Germany” (SHAEF)

  Hannibal

  Hanover

  Hansen, Maj. Chester “Chet”

  Hardy, Thomas

  Harmon, Maj. Gen. Ernie

  Harriman, W. Averell

  Harris, Air Chief Marshal Arthur T. “Bomber”

  Hart, B. H. Liddell

  Harz Mountains

  Hasbrouck, Brig. Gen. Robert W.

  Hastings, Max

  Hausser, Gen. Paul

  Heidelberg

  Heilbronn

  Heinz, W. C.

  Heisenberg, Werner

  Hemingway, Ernest

  Henri II, King of France

  Henry V (Shakespeare)

  HERBSTNEBEL, Operation (Autumn Mist). See also Bulge, Battle of the

  Hewitt, Vice Adm. H. Kent

  Heydte, Col. Friedrich von der

  Higgins, Trumbull

  Hill 262 (Maczuga)

  Hill 314 (Montjoie)

  Hill 400

  Hill 427

  Himmler, Heinrich

  Hindenburg, Field Marshal Paul von

  History of the Norman Conquest of England (Freeman)

  Hitchcock, Alfred

  Hitler, Adolf

  Aachen and

  admits war is lost

  Allied Rhine crossing and

  Alsace and

  Antwerp and

  Ardennes and

  assassination attempt vs.

  Atlantic Wall and

  Belgium and

  Berchtesgaden and

  Blaskowitz fired by

  Boulogne and Dunkirk ordered held by

  British invasion planned by

  Brittany ports and

  Cherbourg and

  COBRA and

  Colmar and

  coup attempt vs.

  D-Day and

  death of Rommel and

  DRAGOON and

  Eastern Front and

  Falaise and

  final days of war and

  forces required to defeat

  French and

  generals fired by

  German losses and

  health problems of

  HERBSTNEBEL (Bulge) and

  Italy and

  June 1945 positions and

  Kesselring and

  Kluge suicide and

  Lorraine and

  Metz and

  Mortain and

  Munich and

  NORDWIND and

  oil and

  OSS portrait of

  OVERLORD and

  Paris and

  retreat from France and

  Rhine bridge demolitions and

  Rommel and

  Ruhr and

  Rundstedt reinstated by

  scorched-earth decree of

  secret weapons and

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p; Siegfried Line and

  Soviet invasion and

  Soviet nonaggression pact and

  Strasbourg and

  suicide of

  V-2 rocket and

  Hitler Youth

  Hobbs, Maj. Gen. Leland S.

  Hodges, Lt. Gen. Courtney H.

  advance on Rhine and

  Bulge and

  Hürtgen and

  January 1945 position of

  personality of

  Rhine crossed by

  Ruhr and

  victory position of

  winter preparations and

  “hog calling” tactic

  Hoge, Brig. Gen. William M.

  Holland. See Netherlands

  Holocaust. See also concentration camps; Jews

  Holzinger, Sgt. Warner W.

  Honsfeld massacre

  Hopkins, Harry

  Horne, Lena

  Horrocks, Lt. Gen. Brian G.

  Horton, Lt. Hershel G.

  Houffalize

  Housman, A. E.

  Howard, Maj. John

  Howard, Michael

  Howarth, David

  Howie, Maj. Thomas D.

  Huebner, Maj. Gen. Clarence R.

  Hughes, Maj. Gen. Everett S.

  Huie, William Bradford

  Hull, Cordell

  Humain

  Hungary

  Hunger Winter

  Hürtgen Forest, Battle of

  HUSKY

  Huy

  Hynes, Samuel

  Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia

  IG Farben

  Ill River

  India

  Indochina

  Infantry Attacks (Rommel)

  Ingersoll, Maj. Ralph

  Innocents Abroad, The (Twain)

  Institute of Physics and Chemistry (Halle, Germany)

  “Instrument of Surrender”

  Is Everybody Happy? (film)

  Isigny

  Ismay, Lt. Gen. Hastings

  Italian campaign

  Allied troops from, join European forces at Brenner Pass

  DRAGOON and

  Fascist collapse in

  German retreat from

  German surrender in

  Gothic Line in

  surrender of

  Iwo Jima

  Jackson, Stonewall

  James, Lt. Clifton

  Jammertal

  Janie (film)

  Japan

  Soviet entry to war on

  surrender of

  Jarrell, Randall

  Jaworski, Lt. Col. Leon

  Jeanne d’Arc, Fort

  Jefferson, Thomas

  jet aircraft

  Jeu de Paume treasures

  Jews

  Hitler and

  last train leaves Paris

  looted goods from

  Nazi extermination of

  Philips shields

  Jodl, Gen. Alfred

  Joint Anglo-American Film Planning Commission

  Jones, Maj. Gen. Alan W.

  Juin, Gen. Alphonse

  Jülich

  Juno Beach

  Jura Mountains

  Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics

  Kall Gorge

  Karcher, Lt. Henri

  Karlshorst, German surrender at

  Karlsruhe

  Kassel

  Kasserine Pass, Battle of

  Kean, Maj. Gen. William B.

  Keegan, John

  Keep, Capt. Henry B.

  Kehl

  Keitel, Field Marshal Wilhelm

  Kerley, Lt. Ralph A.

  Kershaw, Ian

  Kesselring, Field Marshal Albert

  Kimball, Warren F.

  King, Adm. Ernest J.

  King Lear (Shakespeare)

  Kipling, Rudyard

  Kirstein, Lincoln

  Kittel, Gen. Heinrich

  Kluge, Field Marshal Günther von

  relieved of command

  suicide of

  Knobelsdorff, Gen. Otto von

  Knox, Henry

  Koblenz

  fall of

  Koch, Brig. Gen. Oscar W.

  Koenigsmacker, Fort

  Kohl, Helmut

  Kommerscheidt

  Königsberg

  Korea

  Koufra, Battle of

  Kraków

  Krause, Lt. Col. Edward C.

  Krinkelt, Battle of

  Krupp, Alfried

  Krupp factory

  Kuehl, Chaplain Delbert

  Kuril Islands

  Kussin, Gen. Friedrich

  La Caine

  La Cambe cemetery

  Lady Irene (Horsa glider)

  “Lady with the Pet Dog, The” (Chekhov)

  La Fière bridge

  La Gleize

  Lamour, Dorothy

  Lancaster bombers

  Landsberg concentration camp

  Lanzerath

  La Roche-Guyon (German Army Group B HQ)

  fall of

  Larrabee, Eric

  Latvia

  Lauer, Maj. Gen. Walter E.

  LCA-1015

  LCI-88

  LCI-233

  LCIs (landing craft, infantry)

  LCTs (landing craft, tank)

  leafleting

  League of German Maidens

  Lebensraum plan

  Leclerc, Maj. Gen. Jacques Philippe

  Lee, Lt. Gen. John C. H. “Court House”

  Lee, Robert E.

  Lee’s Lieutenants (Freeman)

  Le Hamel

  Le Havre

  Leigh-Mallory, Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford

  Leipzig

  bombing of

  Red Army and Western Allies meet near

  Le Mans

  Lenin, V. I.

  Leningrad

  Leonard, Maj. Gen. John W.

  Leuna synthetic-oil plant

  Lewin, Ronald

  Lewin, Lt. Wells

  Lewis, Norman

  Lewis, Sinclair

  Lewis, Ted

  Liberty ships

  Libya

  Liebling, A. J.

  Liège

  Life

  Lifeboat (film)

  Life of the Bee, The (Maeterlinck)

  “light line”

  Lippe River

  Lippstadt

  Littlejohn, Maj. Gen Robert

  Lodge, Henry Cabot

  logistics

  advance to Germany and

  Antwerp and

  Bastogne and

  DRAGOON and

  French and

  HERBSTNEBEL plan and

  German problems with

  liberation of Paris and

  OVERLORD

  ports and

  post-Bulge

  requirements by fall 1944

  Rhine crossing and

  Ruhr and

  Soviets and

  U.S. contributions to war and

  winter campaign and

  Loire River

  London

  Eisenhower honored in

  Eisenhower meets Churchill in

  privations of

  V-1 and V-2 attacks on

  V-E Day and

  war damage in

  London Daily Express

  London Daily Mail

  London Daily Telegraph

  London Sunday Times

  London Times

  looting

  Lorient, siege of

  Lorraine campaign

  Losheim Gap

  Louis IV, King of France

  Louis IX, St., King of France

  Louis XIV, King of France

  Louis XVI, King of France

  Louis the Pious, King of the Franks

  Lovat, Lord

  Love’s Tables

  Lovett, Robert A.

  Low Countries. See Belgium; Netherlands

  LST-353

  LST 487/516

  LST-906

  LSTs (landing ship, tank)

  D
RAGOON and

  OVERLORD and

  Lübeck

  Lucht, Gen. Walter

  Luck, Lt. Col. Hans von

  Ludendorff, Gen. Erich

  Ludendorff Bridge (Remagen)

  Ludwigshafen

  Lüneberg

  British war crimes trials

  German surrender at

  Lunéville

  Lüttwitz, Lt. Gen. Heinrich von

  Luxembourg

  Bulge and

  Luxembourg City

  Lyon

  M-47 phosphorus bomb (earthquake bomb)

  M-76 Block Burner

  Maas River. See also Meuse River

  Maastricht

  Eisenhower vs. Montgomery showdown at

  Maas-Waal Canal

  MacArthur, Douglas

  MacDonald, Charles B.

  Maddalena, Frank

  Maddalena, Natalie

  MADISON, Operation

  Maeterlinck, Maurice

  Magdeburg

  Maginot Line

  Mainz

  Maison Rouge

  Majdanek concentration camp

  Malden

  Malmédy

  massacre (Baugnez)

  Malta Conference

  Maltese Falcon, The (Hammett)

  Manchuria

  Manderfeld

  Manhattan Project

  Mann, Joe E.

  Mannheim

  bombing of

  Rhine crossing at

  manpower shortages

  Manstein, Field Marshal Erich

  Manteuffel, Gen. Hasso von

  Manual of Therapy

  maquis

  Marburg

  Marcks, Gen. Erich

  Marcus Aurelius

  Mareth, Battle of

  Margival (Hitler’s HQ)

  Margraten cemetery

  Mariana Islands

  Marie Antoinette, Queen of France

  MARKET GARDEN, Operation

  Marlborough (Churchill)

  Marseille

  Marshall, Gen. George C.

  bombing of Berlin and

  Bradley and

  Brereton and

  Bulge and

  COBRA and

  concentration camps and

  Czechoslovakia and

  De Gaulle and

  De Lattre and

  Devers and

  DRAGOON and

  Eisenhower and

  Eisenhower vs. Montgomery and

  final days of war and

  liberation of Paris and

  logistics and

  Malta and

  manpower needs and

  MARKET GARDEN and

  Middleton and

  OVERLORD and

  Patch and

  Patton and

  postwar Europe and

  Red Army and

  Ruhr Pocket POWs

  Ted Roosevelt and

  on WW II

  Yalta and

  Marshall Islands

  Masefield, John

  Mauldin, Bill

  May, Karl

  McAuliffe, Brig, Gen. Anthony Clement

  McCloughry, Air Vice Marshal E. J. Kingston

  McCloy, John J.

  McCown, Maj. Hal D.

  McLain, Maj. Gen. Raymond S.

  McNair, Lt. Gen. Lesley J.

  Me-262 (German jet)

  Mead, Margaret

  medical problems

  frostbite

  trench foot

  typhus

  venereal disease

  Mediterranean campaigns. See also specific campaigns

  Meet the Americans (manual)

  Megargee, Geoffrey P.

  Meindl, Gen. Eugen

  Mein Kampf (Hitler)

  Melmer, Bruno

  Men at War (Hemingway)

  Merderet River

 

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