by Walter Reid
Casablanca conference (January 1943) Ref1, Ref2
Italy and Overlord Ref1, Ref2
King’s view of Ref1
Placentia Bay conference Ref1, Ref2
Potsdam conference (August 1945) Ref1
strategic ability Ref1, Ref2
strategic planning Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Teheran conference (Nov.–Dec. 1943) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Washington conference (June 1942) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7
Washington conference (May 1943) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Mary of Teck, Queen-consort Ref1
Mediterranean Strategy Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9
Menzies, Robert Ref1, Ref2
Menzies, Sir Stewart Ref1, Ref2
Mers-el-Kébir Ref1, Ref2
terrible decision on Ref1
Mersa Matruh Ref1, Ref2
Metaxas, General Ioannis Ref1
military command structures, improvement of Ref1
military imagination, concerns on limitations of Ref1
military operations
Anvil (invasion of South of France, 1944) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Battleaxe (attempt at Cyrenaica, 1941) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Bolero (US forces in Britain, build up of, 1943–4) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Brevity (relief of Tobruk, attempt at, 1941) Ref1
Compass (O’Connor’s operation in Western Desert, 1940) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Crusader (Eighth Army offensive in North Africa, 1941–2) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Diadem (Allied attack on Rome, 1944) Ref1
Dragoon see Anvil
Gynmast see Torch
Husky (landings in Sicily, 1943) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
Jupiter (planned invasion of Norway) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Overlord (invasion of North-west Europe, 1944) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10, Ref11, Ref12, Ref13, Ref14, Ref15, Ref16, Ref17, Ref18, Ref19, Ref20, Ref21
Roundup (contemplated invasion of Europe, 1943) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
Rutter (Dieppe raid, 1942) Ref1
Shingle (Allied landings at Anzio, 1944) Ref1
Sledgehammer (contemplated landing in Europe, 1942) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Torch (Anglo-American landings in North Africa, 1942) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9
Mollet, Guy Ref1
Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
Monnet, Jean Ref1, Ref2
Montgomery, General (later Field-Marshall) Bernard L. Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7
El-Alamein Ref1, Ref2
allied relations, strains in Ref1, Ref2
approach of, in tune with Churchill Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
breakout from Normandy, allies at loggerheads Ref1, Ref2
Brooke’s opinion of Ref1
Italy, attitude to campaign in Ref1
Mareth Line, breaking of Ref1
Notes on Command in Western Europe Ref1
operations planned for 1944 Ref1
Rommel and Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Teheran conference (Nov.-Dec., 1943), discussions about Ref1, Ref2
Torch commander Ref1
Wadi Akarit, success at Ref1
Teheran conference (Nov.–Dec. 1943) Ref1
Yalta conference (February, 1945) Ref1
Morgan, Lieutenant-General Frederick Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Morgenthau Jr, Henry Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
Morning Post Ref1, Ref2
Morton, Major Desmond Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Moscow
conference in (August 1942) Ref1
meeting with Stalin in (October 1944) Ref1
Moulin, Jean Ref1
Mountbatten, Lord Louis F.A.V.N. (later Earl Mountbatten of Burma) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7
Munitions Assignment Board Ref1
Murphy, Bob Ref1
Muselier, Vice-Admiral Émile Henri Ref1, Ref2
Mussolini, Benito Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10, Ref11
capture and execution of Ref1
Fascist government at Lake Garda Ref1
My Early Life (Churchill, W.S.) Ref1
Napoleon Buonaparte Ref1, Ref2
‘Naughty Document’ on Balkan interests Ref1
naval leadership Ref1
see also Alexander, A.V.; Cunningham, A.B.; Mountbatten
Neame, Lieutenant-General Philip Ref1
Nelson, Admiral Horatio Ref1
New York Herald Tribune Ref1, Ref2
Newall, Air Chief Marshall Sir Cyril Ref1, Ref2
News Chronicle Ref1
Nicolson, Harold Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10, Ref11, Ref12
Normandy, dispute over breakout from Ref1
Norrie, Lieutenant-General C.W.M. Ref1, Ref2
North, Admiral Sir Dudley Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
North Africa Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Alamein Ref1
Allied domination of Ref1
Anglo-American landings in, Operation Torch Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
battles in, nature of Ref1
British presence in Ref1
Casablanca conference (January 1943), discussions at Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Churchill’s concentration on Ref1, Ref2
continuation of war from, prospect of Ref1
France, de Gaulle and Ref1
Greece, precedence in planning over Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
leadership in Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Moscow conference (August 1942), discussions with Stalin at Ref1
Rommel offensive stalled Ref1
success in Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Washington conference (June 1942), discussions at Ref1
Washington conferences (December–January 1941/2), discussions at Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
North-west Africa Ref1, Ref2
Norway
campaign for Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
see also Jupiter
Nye, General Francis Walter Ref1
O’Connor, General Sir Richard Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
offensive operations, Churchill as champion of Ref1
Onassis, Aristotle Ref1
operations see military operations
Overlord (invasion of North-west Europe, 1944) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9
D-Day Ref1, Ref2
planning for Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
Quebec conference, planning at Ref1
Teheran conference, planning at Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Owen, Frank Ref1
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Ref1
Pacific Ref1
reverses in theatre Ref1
Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza, Shah of Persia Ref1
Papandreou, Georgios Ref1
Park, Air Vice-Marshall Keith Ref1
Patton, General George S. Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Pearl Harbor, and reaction to Ref1, Ref2
Pearson, Drew Ref1
Peck, John Ref1, Ref2
Peirse, Air Marshall Sir Richard Ref1
Pershing, General John J. Ref1
Persia Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
Pétain, Marshal Henri Philippe Omer Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7
Peyrouton, Marcel Ref1
Phillip, Terence Ref1
Phillips, Admiral Tom Ref1
Phillips, Ambassador William Ref1
Pimm, Captain Richard Ref1, Ref2
Placentia Bay summit Ref1, Ref2
Poland Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
cost of war for Ref1
post-war future for Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
Potsdam discussions on Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Yalta discussions on Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Ponting, Clive Ref1
Portal, Air Chief Marshall Sir Charles F.A. Ref1, Ref2, Ref3,
Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
post-war arrangements
‘Percentages Agreement’ and spheres of influence Ref1
Poland, post-war future for Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
Roosevelt’s interest in shaping post-war world Ref1
spheres of influence Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
see also Potsdam conference; Quebec conference (September 1944); Yalta conference
Potsdam conference (July–August 1945) Ref1
Pound, Admiral A. Dudley Pickman Rogers Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10, Ref11
Pownall, Henry Ref1
Prytz, Bjorn Ref1
Quebec conference (August 1943) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Quebec conference (September 1944) Ref1
Rashid Ali, Prime Minister of Iraq Ref1
Reagan, Ronald Ref1
Rees, Major Goronwy Ref1
Reith, John C.W., Baron Reith of Stonehaven Ref1
Reod, Mrs Helen O.M. Ref1
Reves, Emery and Wendy Ref1
Reynaud, Paul Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Ribbentrop, Joachim von Ref1
Richie, Major-General Neil Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
rivals for leadership Ref1
River Plate, battle of the Ref1
Robertson, Sir William Robert (CIGS, 1915–18) Ref1, Ref2
Rommel, Field-Marshall Erwin Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
complaints about equipment shortages Ref1
Egypt and advance of Ref1
Egypt and advances in North Africa Ref1
halting of Ref1
in North Africa, defensive brief Ref1
Roosevelt, Anna Ref1
Roosevelt, Eleanor Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Roosevelt, Elliot Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Roosevelt, Franklin D. Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Aegean operations Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
allied discussions, lack of consensus in Ref1
ambivalence towards Britain Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Anzio landing, approval of Ref1
appeal for destroyers to, dismissal of Ref1
Arcadia Conference, Washington (December 1941/January 1942) Ref1, Ref2
Atlantic conference, Placentia Bay (August 1941) Ref1
Casablanca conference Ref1, Ref2
Churchill, British politics and Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Churchill’s affection for Ref1
Churchill’s lend-lease appeal (December 1940) to Ref1
colonies (particularly British and French), proposals for Ref1, Ref2
and de Gaulle Ref1, Ref2
and de Gaulle, attitude towards Ref1
destroyers for bases deal Ref1
election victory (1940) Ref1
election victory (1944) Ref1
Europe, attitude towards operations in Ref1
Europe after D-Day Ref1
‘exchange of views’, Placentia Bay dismissed as Ref1
flirtatiousness Ref1
foreign wars, attitude to Ref1
France, pleas for help in battle for Ref1
French dimension Ref1
Greek situation (December 1944) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Hopkins mission to Britain Ref1
initiatives and retractions, record of Ref1
lend-lease negotiations Ref1
Olympian leader Ref1
Pacific theatre, setbacks in Ref1
Pearl Harbor Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Placentia Bay meeting with Churchill Ref1
political pragmatism of Ref1
post-war world, interest in shaping Ref1
Quebec conference (August 1943) Ref1
Quebec conference (September 1944) Ref1, Ref2
race issues for Ref1
Russian expansionism, failure to recognize Ref1
sickness and death Ref1
spheres of influence, post-war arrangements on Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Stalin and Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
strains between allies Ref1
strategic planning, Sledgehammer and Overlord Ref1
Teheran conference (Nov.–Dec. 1943) Ref1
travel, aversion to Ref1
Trident conference, Washington (May 1943) Ref1
unity with Churchill, disintegration of Ref1
warmth and conviviality of Ref1
Yalta conference (February 1945) Ref1
Roosevelt, Theodore Ref1
Roosevelt and Hopkins (Sherwood, R.) Ref1
Roosevelt Jr., Franklin Ref1
Roskill, Sir Ashton Wentworth Ref1
Rougier, Professor Louis Ref1
Roundup (contemplated invasion of Europe, 1943) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
Rowan, Sir Leslie Ref1
Rusk, Dean Ref1
Rutter (Dieppe raid, 1942) Ref1
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de Ref1
St Pierre et Miquelon Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Salerno landings, reminder of Gallipoli Ref1
Sardinia Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Savrola (Churchill, W.S.) Ref1
Scapa Flow Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Scobie, General Sir Ronald MacKenzie Ref1
Seal, Eric Ref1
The Second World War (Churchill, W.S.) Ref1, Ref2
Sellar, W.C. Ref1
SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Shearer, Brigadier E.J. Ref1
Sherwood, Robert Ref1
Shingle (Allied landings at Anzio, 1944) Ref1
Shinwell, Emmanuel Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Shulman, Milton Ref1
Sicily Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
see also Husky
Sidi Barrani Ref1, Ref2
Simon, John Allsebrook, Viscount Ref1
Sinclair, Sir Archibald Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Singapore
defence of Ref1, Ref2
surrender of Ref1
Sledgehammer (contemplated landing in Europe, 1942) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Slessor, Air Marshall Sir John Cotesworth Ref1
Smith, F.E. Ref1
Smuts, General Jan Christiaan Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7
Soames, Mary Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Soldiers and Statesmen (Robertson, W.) Ref1
Somaliland Ref1, Ref2
Somerville, Admiral James Ref1
Soviet Union Ref1, Ref2
cost of war for Ref1
fears of war with Ref1
Japan and Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
see also Stalin, Josef
Spanish Civil War Ref1
Spears, Edward Ref1
Spears, General Louis Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Special Operations Executive (SOE) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
The Spectator Ref1
Speer, Albert Ref1
Spender, J.A. Ref1
Stafford, David Ref1
Stalin, Josef Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9
Balkans, wish for free hand in Ref1
British and American plans, disgust at Ref1, Ref2
British offensives, satisfaction with Ref1
death of Ref1
delays in cross-channel offensive, reaction to Ref1
Eastern Europe, Churchill’s appeal on Ref1
fidelity on Greece of Ref1
Greece, attitude on Ref1, Ref2
Moscow meeting with Churchill (October 1944) Ref1
Potsdam conference (August 1945) Ref1, Ref2
Roosevelt and Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Russian committment to facing Germany Ref1, Ref2
spheres of influence, post-war arrangements on Ref1, Ref2
Teheran conference Ref1
Yalta conference (February 1945) Ref1
Stark, Admiral Harold R. (‘Betty’) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Stettinius, Ed Ref1, Ref2
Stilwell, General Joseph W. (‘Vinegar Joe’) Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Stimson, Henry L. Ref1, Ref2
, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10, Ref11, Ref12
Stokes, Richard Ref1, Ref2
The Story of the Malakand Field Force (Churchill, W.S.) Ref1
Stuart, James Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Suez Canal Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Sunday Pictorial Ref1
Syria Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9
Taft, Robert A. Ref1, Ref2
Tedder, Air Chief Marshall Lord Alfred William Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Teheran conference (November 1943) Ref1
Thatcher, Margaret Ref1
The Times Ref1, Ref2
Tito, Marshall Josip Broz Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4