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

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by Rick Atkinson

Merkers treasure

  Merriman, Henry Seton

  Messina

  Metz

  Battle of

  Meuse-Escaut Canal

  Meuse River. See also Maas River

  Bulge and

  GREIF and

  HERBSTNEBEL and

  Meyer, Col. Kurt

  Middleton, Drew

  Middleton, Maj. Gen. Troy

  Bulge and

  Rhine crossing and

  Milburn, Maj. Gen. Frank W.

  Miller, Maj. Glenn

  Miller, Lee

  Millett, Allan R.

  Millikin, Maj. Gen. John

  Millin, Sgt. Bill

  mines

  Mission No. 17. See Yalta Conference

  Model, Field Marshal Walter

  Allied Rhine crossing and

  Bulge and

  Ruhr and

  suicide of

  Molotov, Vyacheslav

  Monet, Claude

  Monsabert, Gen. Joseph de Goislard de

  Monschau

  Mons Pocket

  Montélimar, Battle of

  Montgomery, Gen. Bernard L. “Monty”

  Antwerp and

  assessment of

  BODENPLATTE and

  Bradley and

  Brittany and

  Bulge and

  Churchill and

  COBRA and

  D-Day and

  De Gaulle and

  Eisenhower and

  Eisenhower assumes command of ground assault and

  Eisenhower shifts attack to Bradley from

  Eisenhower vs., and Bulge

  Eisenhower vs., and Churchill

  Eisenhower vs., and MARKET GARDEN

  Eisenhower vs., and showdown at Maastricht

  Eisenhower vs., and single- vs. multipronged strategy

  Eisenhower vs., and war’s end date

  Elbe crossing and

  Falaise and

  German surrender and

  GOODWOOD and

  Horrocks and

  January 1945 position of

  Malta and

  MARKET GARDEN and

  Mortain and

  Normandy and

  North Africa and

  OVERLORD and

  Patton and

  personality of

  promoted to field marshal

  Rhine crossing and

  Ruhr and

  SHAEF tensions and

  Siegfried Line and

  VARSITY PLUNDER and

  VERITABLE and GRENADE and

  victory position of

  Yalta and

  Montjoie (Hill 314)

  Mont-St.-Michel

  Mook

  Moon, Rear Adm. Don P.

  Moore, Henry

  Moorehead, Alan

  Moran, Charles

  Morgan, Lt. Gen. Frederick E.

  Morgenthau, Henry, Jr.

  Morocco

  Mortain, Battle of

  Moselle River

  Mosel River

  MOVCO

  Muirhead, John

  Mulberry A (synthetic harbor)

  Mulberry B (Port Winston, synthetic harbor)

  Mulhouse

  Munich

  Munich Conference

  munition supplies

  Münster

  Murphy, Lt. Audie Leon

  Murphy, Robert

  Murray, Williamson

  Murrow, Edward R.

  Mussolini, Benito

  mustard gas

  Namur

  Nancy

  napalm

  Naples

  Churchill at

  Napoléon Bonaparte

  National Redoubt

  National Velvet (film)

  Natzweiler concentration camp

  Nazi Party

  Neder Rijn (Lower Rhine)

  Neffe

  Nelson, Adm. Horatio

  Netherlands

  liberation of

  MARKET GARDEN and

  V-2 rockets and

  Neuf-Brisach

  Neufchâteau

  Nevada, U.S.S.

  New Yorker

  New York Herald Tribune

  New York Sun

  New York Times

  Ney, Marshal Michel

  Nicholas II, Czar of Russia

  Nijmegen

  MARKET GARDEN and

  Niven, David

  Nordhausen concentration camp

  Nordling, Raoul

  NORDWIND, Operation

  Normandy. See OVERLORD; and specific battles and locations

  gains and losses at end of

  July advance and fears of stalemate

  June advance

  map of assault on

  terrain and bocage

  North African campaign. See also specific battles and countries

  Norway

  “Notes on Command in Western Europe” (Montgomery memorandum)

  Noville, Battle of

  NOVOCAINE (commando team)

  Nuremberg

  war-crimes tribunals

  Nutting, Conrad J., III

  Nutting, Katherine

  O, Task Force

  Oberkassel crossing

  Obersalzberg

  O’Brien, Capt. Thomas F.

  Obstfelder, Gen. Wolgang von

  O’Connor, Gen. Sir Richard

  O’Daniel, Maj. Gen. John W. “Iron Mike”

  Oder River

  Office of Strategic Services (OSS)

  “Field Manual No. 3”

  Oflag XIII-B (German POW camp)

  Oflag 64 (German POW camp)

  Oflag 79 (German POW camp)

  Ohrdruf concentration camp

  oil. See also fuel supplies

  Okinawa, Battle of

  OKW. See German Oberkommando der Wehrmacht

  Olga Nikolaevna, Grand Duchess of Russia

  Olivier, Laurence

  Omaha Beach

  synthetic harbor

  O’Malley, Patricia

  O’Malley, Maj. Richard James

  O’Neill, Col. James H.

  Oosterbeek

  Oppenheim, Patton crosses Rhine at

  Oppenheimer, J. Robert

  Oradour-sur-Glane massacre

  Oran

  Orléans

  Orne River

  Ortona, Battle of

  Orwell, George

  Osnabrück, bombing of

  Osthelmer, Sgt. Werner

  Ott, Mel

  Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor

  Our River

  OVERLORD

  advance into Normandy and

  airborne drop

  armada on eve

  Brittany ports and

  Cherbourg and

  COBRA and

  costs of

  D-Day landings and

  De Gaulle and

  DRAGOON and

  Falaise and

  German defenses and

  GOODWOOD and

  Hitler and German response to

  launched

  Montgomery and

  Mortain and

  Patton and

  planned

  synthetic harbors and

  weather delays and

  Overy, Richard

  Pacific campaign

  Pact of Steel

  Paderborn

  Panter-Downes, Mollie

  Paris

  Bulge and

  COMZ and

  demolition fears and

  liberation of

  logistics and

  Patton’s push toward

  post-liberation

  V-E Day and

  Parker, Capt. James E.

  Pas de Calais

  Pash, Col. Boris T.

  Passchendaele, Battle of (1917)

  Passierschein (safe-conduct pass)

  Patch, Lt. Gen. Alexander McCarrell, Jr. “Sandy”

  death of son and

  DRAGOON and Rhone campaign and

  final days of war and

  NORDWIN
D and

  personality of

  Rhine crossing and

  Strasbourg and

  victory position of

  Patch, Capt. Alexander M. “Mac”, III

  Patch, Julia

  Patton, Beatrice

  Patton, Lt. Gen. George S., Jr,

  XV Corps and

  arrives in France to head Third Army

  Bastogne and

  black soldiers and

  Bradley and

  Brittany vs. Paris and

  brothels and

  Bulge and

  casualties and

  concentration camps and

  Devers and

  diary of

  Eisenhower and

  Eisenhower vs. Montgomery and

  Falaise and

  final days of war and

  German campaign of

  German surrender and

  January 1945 position of

  Lee and

  Linz and

  logistics and

  manpower shortages and

  Marlene Dietrich and

  media and

  meets First Army, in advance to Germany

  Merkers treasure and

  Metz and

  Montgomery and

  NORDWIND and

  OVERLORD and

  personality of

  pozit shell and

  rescue of son-in-law attempted by

  Rhine advance by

  Rhine crossing and

  Ruhr and

  Siegried Line and

  son of

  victory position of

  Vosges and Alsace campaign and

  Pearl Harbor

  Peenemünde project. See also V-1 rocket; V-2 rocket

  Peiper, Lt. Col. Joachim

  PENGUIN, Operation

  Périers road

  Périers-sur-le-Dan

  Pershing, Gen. John J.

  Philippines

  Philips company

  Picasso, Pablo

  Pilgrim’s Progress, The (Bunyan)

  Pilzen

  PINWE (“Problems of the Invasion of Northwest Europe”)

  Pissaro, Camille

  Plainsman, The (film)

  Plan 4–44

  Plokhy, S. M.

  PLUNDER, Operation

  PLUTO (Pipeline Underwater Transport of Oil)

  Pogue, Sgt. Forrest C.

  poison gas

  Poland

  Yalta and

  Polish 1st Armored Division

  Polish 10th Dragoons

  Polish armed forces

  POWs

  Porch, Douglas

  Po River

  Portal, Air Chief Marshal Charles F. A.

  potassium mines

  Poteau

  Pouppeville

  pozit shells (VT device)

  Pratt, Brig. Gen. Don F.

  “Preparation for Overseas Movement” (booklet)

  Preston, Corp. William

  Prettyman, Arthur

  Priester, Marion

  prostitution

  Puerto Rico

  Pyle, Ernie

  Quebec Conference

  QUEEN, Operation

  Queen Elizabeth (British ocean liner)

  Queen Mary (British ocean liner)

  Queen of Angels (airplane)

  Quesada, Maj. Gen. Elwood “Pete”

  Quiberon Bay

  Quincy, U.S.S.

  racial segregation

  radar jamming

  radio communications

  Radio Luxembourg

  Radio Stuttgart

  railroads

  Ramsay, Adm. Sir Bertram H.

  Rapido River, Battle of

  Rasp, Gen. Siegfried

  Rastatt, Rhine crossing at

  Rebecca (du Maurier)

  Red Army

  Anglo-American forces meet, in Germany

  atrocities and

  Berlin and

  casualties and

  Czechoslovakia and

  Denmark and

  Germans flee

  Oder River and

  Poland and

  victory position of

  Red Army 173rd Rifle Regiment

  Red Army 175th Rifle Regiment

  Red Ball Express

  Red Cross

  Red List plan

  Reims

  German surrender at

  SHAEF HQ at

  Reinhardt, Maj. Gen. Emil F.

  Remagen, Rhine crossing at

  Rembrandt

  Rennes

  Renoir, Pierre-Auguste

  Retonfey, Third Army wings meet at

  Reuters

  Rheinberg, Churchill, Eisenhower, Bradley and Simpson meeting at

  Rhineland, French occupation zone in

  Rhine-Marne Canal

  Rhine River. See also Neder Rijn

  Allied advance on

  Allies cross, at Remagen

  Allies reach

  Antwerp and Aachen and

  Bulge and

  campaign in Germany after crossing

  Churchill and crossing of

  Colmar Pocket and

  crossing delayed, to sweep west of

  Devers’ crossing at Rastatt, rejected by Eisenhower

  French cross

  German retreat from

  Malta and

  MARKET GARDEN and

  Montgomery and

  NORDWIND and

  Patton crosses, at Oppenheim

  QUEEN and

  Roer and

  Siegfriend Line and

  Stolberg crossing and

  Strasbourg and

  VARSITY PLUNDER and

  VERITABLE and GRENADE and

  Vosges campaign and

  Yalta and

  Rhine River Flood Prediction Service

  Rhône River

  Ribbentrop, Joachim von

  Ridgway, Maj. Gen. Matthew B.

  Riding High (film)

  Ritchie, Lt. Gen. Neil

  river-crossing schools

  Roberts, Maj. Gen. G. P. B. “Pip”

  Robertson, Lt. William D.

  Robert the Magnificent, Duke of Normandy

  Roer River

  Rol, Colonel

  Roland, Capt. Charles P.

  Romania

  Ploesti oil facilities at

  postwar

  Rome

  ancient

  Battle of

  Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin

  Atlantic Wall and

  Caen and

  Cherbourg and

  D-Day and

  Hitler and

  near death of, and return to Germany

  Normandy and

  OVERLORD and

  separate peace and

  suicide of

  Rommel, Lucie-Maria

  Rommel Belt

  Roosevelt, Anna (daughter of FDR)

  Roosevelt, Eleanor Butler Alexander “Bunny” (wife of Theodore, Jr.)

  Roosevelt, Eleanor (wife of FDR)

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Churchill and

  death of

  De Gaulle and

  DRAGOON and

  Eisenhower and

  final days of war and

  Hitler and

  liberation of Paris and

  Malta and

  manpower shortages and

  OVERLORD and

  Pacific and

  postwar plan of

  shift from Berlin to southeast route and

  Soviet Union and

  Suez meetings and

  UN and

  unconditional surrender and

  Yalta and

  Roosevelt, Quentin (son of Ted, Jr.)

  Roosevelt, Brig. Gen. Theodore, Jr., “Ted”

  death of

  Medal of Honor and

  OVERLORD and

  personality of

  Roosevelt, Theodore (president and father of Ted, Jr.)

  Rose, Maj. Gen. Maurice

  Rostock, bombin
g of

  Rotterdam

  Rouen

  Rubens, Peter Paul

  Ruge, Vice Adm. Friedrich

  Ruhr

  advance toward

  bombing of

  Eisenhower vs. Montgomery on thrust toward

  encircling of (Ruhr Pocket)

  HERBSTNEBEL and

  postwar plan for

  VARSITY PLUNDER and

  VERITABLE and GRENADE and

  Yalta and

  RUMPELKAMMER, Operation 107

  Rundstedt, Field Marshal Gerd von

  Aachen and

  Allies reach Rhine and

  Bulge and

  January 1945 position of

  Normandy invasion and

  relieved of command

  Remagen and

  restored to command to defend Siegfried Line

  Rommel and

  Russo-Japanese War

  Ryan, Cornelius

  Saarbrücken

  Saar-Palatinate

  Saar River, Third Army reaches

  Saar Valley

  Sadzot, Battle of

  Saipan

  Salerno campaign

  Salm River

  Salzburg

  Samuel Chase, U.S.S.

  San Pietro, Battle of

  Sarrebourg

  Saudi Arabia

  Savannah, U.S.S.

  Saverne Gap

  Scannell, Vernon

  Schaeffer, Gen. Hans

  Scharnhorst Line

  Scheldt River, Battle of the

  Schill Line

  Schlemm, Gen. Alfred

  Schleswig-Holstein

  Schlieben, Gen. Karl-Wilhelm von

  Schmidt

  Battle of

  Schnee Eifel

  Battle and surrender at

  Schönberg

  Schwammenauel dam

  Schwerin, Gen. Gerhard Graf von

  SEA LION plan

  Sebald, W. G.

  Seeger, Alan

  Seine, Bay of the

  Seine River

  Sélune River

  Sevareid, Eric

  Sevastopol

  Seven Years War

  SHAEF. See Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force

  Shakespeare, William

  Shapiro, Karl

  Shaw, George Bernard

  Shaw, Irwin

  Shirer, William

  Short Guide to Great Britain, A

  Sibert, Brig. Gen. Edwin L.

  Sicilian campaign

  Siegen, looted treasures in

  Siegfried Line (West Wall)

  Aachen and

  Allies reach

  Bulge and

  campaign of 1944 at

  First Army breaches, at Stolberg

  Hürtgen and

  January 1945 positions and

  MARKET GARDEN and

  mines in

  Patton and

  Rhine crossing and

  Strasbourg and

  Silesia

  Simonds, Lt. Gen. Guy

  Simpson, Louis

  Simpson, Lt. Gen. William H.

  final days of war and

  German surrender and

  Roer and

  Skorzeny, Otto

  Slapton Sands calamity

  slave labor

  Slovik, Antoinette

  Slovik, Eddie D.

  Smith, Al

  Smith, Lt. Col. Baldwin B.

  Smith, Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell “Beetle”

  Bulge and

  bombing of Germany and

  Devers and

  Eisenhower and

  German surrender and

  Malta and

  MARKET GARDEN and

  Montgomery and

  Patton and

  Rhine crossing and

  Strasbourg and

  Smuts, Jan

 

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