Clark, Sir Kenneth (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Colville, John (i), (ii), (iii)
commencement of hostilities (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
concerts (i)
‘confetti war’ (i)illus.
Cook, Captain James (i), (ii), (iii)
Cooper, Alfred Duff (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Cooper, Lady Diana (i), (ii)
Corbin, Charles (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Coulondre, Robert (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
countdown to war: January-September 1939 (i)
Courageous, HMS (aircraft carrier) (i), (ii)illus.
Coward, Noël (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Cowles, Virginia (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Cox, Geoffrey (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)
Czecho-Slovakia (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v) see also Slovakia
Czechs (i), (ii), (iii)
Dabrowski, Captain Franciszek (i), (ii)
Dahlerus, Birger (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Daily Express (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii)
Daily Mail (i), (ii), (iii)
Daily Telegraph (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Daladier, Edouard (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)illus., (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi)
Dalton, Hugh (i), (ii), (iii)
Danzig (‘Free City’) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi)
Day, Kenneth (i)
De Valera, Eamon (i), (ii)
Dean, Basil (i)
declaration of war by Britain (i), (ii) see also Chamberlain, Neville; Daladier, Edouard; France; George VI, King of England
reactions to (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Defence Policy Plans Committee (i)
Delmer, Denis Sefton (i), (ii)
Deutschland (pocket battleship) (i), (ii), (iii)
name changed to Luetzow (i)
Deutschlandsender (German Radio) (i)
Dickson, John (i)
Directive No. 1 for the Conduct of War (Germany) (i)
Dirksen, Herbert von (i)
Doenitz, Commodore Karl (i), (ii), (iii)
domestic animals: mass slaughter of (i)
Dominions see British Empire and Commonwealth
Douglas-Home, Alexander (i), (ii)illus., (iii), (iv)
Dove, Captain Charles (i), (ii)
Driberg, Tom (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Duff Cooper, Alfred see Cooper, Alfred Duff
Dunbar, Robert (i), (ii)
Earle, Hubert (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Economist (i), (ii)
Eden, Anthony (i), (ii), (iii)illus., (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Eire (Irish Free State) (i)
Electra, HMS (destroyer) (i)
Elizabeth, Queen (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)illus., (vi), (vii), (viii)illus., (ix), (x)
Elliot, Walter (i), (ii)
Elser, Georg (i), (ii)illus., (iii), (iv)
Emergency Powers (Defence) Act (1939) (i)
Entente Cordiale (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
entertainment:
Christmas concerts (i)
Restrictions on venues (i), (ii)
for the troops (i)
Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) (i)
Estonia (i), (ii)
evacuation (i), (ii), (iii) see also refugees
of British nationals abroad (i)
of children (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)illus., (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii)illus., (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi)illus., (xxii)illus.
complaints about (i), (ii)
of diplomatic personnel (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
hospital patients (i)illus.
Exeter, HMS (cruiser) (i)
Ferdonnet, Paul ‘The Traitor of Stuttgart’ (i)
Fields, Gracie (i), (ii), (iii)illus., (iv), (v)
Finland (i)
Christmas 1939 (i)
Soviet invasion (i)
First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) (i), (ii)
1st September 1939 (i)
five power conference (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)
Fleming, W B (i)
Forster, Albert (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Foulkes, Major-General Charles (i), (ii)
France (i), (ii), (iii)
Christmas 1939 (i)illus.
civil defence (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
declaration of war (i), (ii)
guarantee to Poland (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
delays honouring (i), (ii)
Hitler’s assurances to (i)
land war against Germany (i), (ii)
mobilisation (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
pre-war mood (i)
war songs (i)
Franco, General Francisco (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Franco-Polish pact (May 1939) (i), (ii), (iii)
Frank, Hans (i)
Gafencu, Grigore (i), (ii), (iii)illus.
Gamelin, General Maurice (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)illus., (v), (vi)
deceitfulness (i)
gas helmets (i)
gas masks (i), (ii)illus.
children’s (i)
testing (i)illus.
gas-proof kennels (i)
General Government of Occupied Polish Territories (i)
Geneva Protocol (1925) (i)
George VI, King of England (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)illus., (vi)illus., (vii), (viii)illus., (ix), (x)
Christmas broadcast (i)
war address (i)
war diary (i)
German Army (i)
Abwehr (military intelligence) (i)
17th Infantry Division (i)
SS troops (i), (ii)illus., (iii), (iv), (v)
German Navy (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
commencement of hostilities (i)
secret weapon (i)
U-boats (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)illus., (vii)
German-Polish negotiations (i)
German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact (1934) (i), (ii)
German-Soviet pact (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
reactions to (i), (ii), (iii)
secret protocol (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
signing (i)illus.
Germany (i) see also Hitler, Adolf; propaganda
air raids on Britain (i)
announces state of war (i)
British interests, safeguarded by US (i)
censorship (i)
Christmas 1939 (i)
evacuation of children (i)
mobilisation (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
pre-war mood (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
rationing (i)
secret weapon (i)
succession arrangements (i)
territorial demands (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
ultimatum to Poland (i)
war songs (i)
Gielgud, John (i)illus.
Giesler, Rodney (i), (ii)
Gipsy, HMS (destroyer) (i)
Gleiwitz radio station (Germany) (i), (ii), (iii)
Gloucester, Duke and Duchess of (i), (ii)
Goebbels, Dr Josef (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii)illus., (xiii)
Goering, Hermann (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)illus., (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi)
Gort, General Lord (i), (ii)illus., (iii), (iv), (v)
Gothard, Marjorie: war diaries (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Greece: British and French guarantees (i)
Greene, Hugh Carleton (i), (ii), (iii)
Greenwood, Arthur (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
Grey, Sir Edward (i), (ii)
Griffiths, Guy (i)
‘guns or butter’ (i)
Hacha, Emil (i), (ii), (iii)illus., (iv)
Halifax,
Lord (i)illus., (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx)illus., (xxi), (xxii)illus., (xxiii)
Hall, Vivienne: war diaries (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii)
Hanfstaengl, Ernst ‘Putzi’ (i), (ii)
Hankey, Lord (i)illus., (ii), (iii)
Harris, Arthur ‘Bomber’ (i)
Harrison, Paymaster-Lieutenant (i)
Harvey, Oliver (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)illus., (vii), (viii), (ix)
Harwood, Commodore Henry (i)
Haskins, Minnie Louise (i)
Heinkel He IIIH (i)illus.
Helgeby, Carsten (i)
Helsinki: bombing by Soviets (i)illus., (ii)
Henderson, Sir Nevile (i)illus., (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)illus., (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix)
Henson, Leslie: Outlook for 1939 (i)
Hess, Myra (i)illus.
Hess, Rudolf (i), (ii)
Heydrich, Reinhard (i)
Hibberd, Stuart (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Himmler, Heinrich (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Hinsch, Leutnant Hans-Peter (i), (ii)
Hird, Albert (i), (ii), (iii)
Hitler, Adolf (i), (ii)illus., (iii), (iv)illus., (v), (vi)illus., (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)illus., (xi), (xii)illus., (xiii), (xiv), (xv)illus., (xvi)illus., (xvii), (xviii), (xix) see also Germany
addresses Reichstag (i), (ii)
announces war (i), (ii)
attempt on his life (i), (ii)
Christmas 1939 (i), (ii)illus.
Prague coup (i)
replies to British (i), (ii), (iii)
visits the Eastern Front (i)
Hoare, Sir Samuel (i), (ii)illus., (iii)
Hochlinden customs post (Germany) (i), (ii)
Holland see Netherlands
Hollingworth, Clare (i), (ii)
Home Front (i) see also civil defence in Britain
Hore-Belisha, Leslie (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)illus., (viii), (ix), (x)
Imperial War Museum: evacuation of works of art (i), (ii)
India: troops (i)illus., (ii), (iii)
invasion of Poland (‘Case White’) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)illus., (v), (vi)illus., (vii), (viii), (ix)
advance to River Bug (i)
atrocities against Poles and Jews (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv)illus., (xvi), (xvii)
bombing (i), (ii)
British reactions (i), (ii)illus., (iii), (iv), (v)
France’s reaction (i), (ii), (iii)
Germans’ reactions (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
plans and preparations (i), (ii), (iii)illus.
SS interrogations (i)illus.
strength of German forces (i)
troops cross the Vistula (i)
Warsaw falls (i)
Westerplatte (i)illus., (ii)
Irish ports (i)
Ironside, General Sir Edmund (i), (ii)illus., (iii), (iv)
Italy (i), (ii)
alliance with Germany (i)
five power conference (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
neutrality (i), (ii), (iii)
occupation of Albania (i)
Japan (i), (ii)
Jews (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)
anti-Semitism 102 (see also invasion of Poland (‘Case White’))
children (i)
forced labour (i)illus.
Jordan, Max (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Joyce, Margaret (i), (ii), (iii)
Joyce, William (Lord Haw-Haw) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)illus., (v)
Kennard, Sir Howard (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Kennedy, Capitain Edward Coverly (i)
Kennedy, Joseph (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Kent, Duke and Duchess of (i), (ii)
Keynes, John Maynard (i)
Kiel Raid (1939) (i)
Kindertransport (i)
King, William Lyon Mackenzie (i), (ii)
Kirk, Alexander (i), (ii), (iii)
Kirkpatrick, Ivone (i)
Knute Nelson (freighter) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Korda, Alexander (i)
Kordt, Dr Theodor (i), (ii)
Krey, Corporal Wilhelm: war diaries (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)
Kristallnacht (1938) (i)
Lake, Sir Richard and Lady (i), (ii)
land war (i)
Lang, Gordon Cosmo, Archbishop of Canterbury (i)
Langsdoff, Captain Hans (i)illus.
Latvia (i), (ii)
Laval, Pierre (i)
League of Nations (i)
Lebrun, Albert (i), (ii), (iii)
Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler (SS) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Lemp, Oberleutnant Fritz-Julius (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)illus.
Leon, Zbigniew (i), (ii), (iii)
Leslie, Jane (i), (ii), (iii)
Lidell, Alvar (i), (ii)
Lieutenant, Ella (i)
Linge, Heinz (i), (ii)
Linlithgow, Viceroy, Lord (i)
Lithuania (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Litvinov, Maxim (i)illus.
Lloyd, Alice (i)
Lloyd George, David (i), (ii), (iii)
Locarno Treaty (i)
Lockwood, Frank T (i)
London Zoo: evacuation (i)illus., (ii)
Loraine, Sir Percy (i)
Lord Haw-Haw see Joyce, William (Lord Haw-Haw)
Lubitsch, Ernst (i)
Lukasiewicz, Juliusz (i), (ii)
lunchtime concerts (i)
Lustig, Edith (i)
Lynn, Vera (i), (ii)
MacDonald, Ramsay (i)
Mackenzie, Compton (i)
magnetic mines (i)
Maitland, Patrick (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Makeig, Captain William T (i)
Mannerheim, Field Marshal Carl Gustav (i)illus., (ii), (iii)
Mannerheim Line (i)
Marshall, John (i)
Masel, Nina (i)
Mason, James (i)
Mass Observation (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii) – (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii)
Me and My Girl (i), (ii)illus.
Mein Kampf (1925) (i), (ii)
Memel (i)
Menzies, Robert (i), (ii), (iii)
Military Training Bill (1939) (i), (ii)
Militiamen (Belisha’s army) (i)illus.
Miller, Max (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Ministry of Economic Warfare (i)
Ministry of Information (i), (ii)
Mitford, Unity (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Molotov, Vyacheslav (i)illus., (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)illus., (vi), (vii), (viii)
Montgredien, Captain Georges (i)
Monzie, Anatole de (i), (ii)
Mooney, Neville (i)illus.
Morrell, Theodor (i), (ii)
Moscicki, Ignace (i), (ii)
Mosley, Sir Oswald (i)illus., (ii)
Mott, Helena Pare Lydia: war diaries (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx)
Mountbatten, Pamela (i)
Munich Agreement (1938) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Murdoch, Richard ‘Stinker’ (i), (ii)
Mussolini, Benito (i), (ii)illus., (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x) see also five power conference; Italy
National Gallery (i)
evacuation of works of art (i)
lunchtime concerts (i)illus., (ii)
National Register (i), (ii)
National Socialist League (Britain) (i)
Naujocks, Alfred (i), (ii)
naval war (i)
and Admiral Graf Spee (i), (ii)illus.
Christmas 1939 (i)
Nazi-Soviet pact
see German-Soviet pact
Netherlands (i)
waiting for war (i)
New Year’s Eve 1939 (i)
New Zealand (i), (ii), (iii)
Newall, Air Chief Marshal Sir Cyril (i)illus., (ii)
Nicolson, Harold (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
Niven, David (i)
Noël, Leon (i), (ii), (iii)
Novello, Ivor (i)
‘Old Fighters’ (i)
Oliver, Sarah (i)
Oliver, Vic (i), (ii)
Ouvry, Lieutenant Commander John D G (i)illus.
Paasikivi, J K (i)
Pacelli, Cardinal Eugenio see Pius XII, Pope (Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli)
pacifists and peace campaigners (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Pact of Steel (1939) (i), (ii)
Papen, Franz von (i), (ii)
Parker, Ross (i)
Payne-Best, Captain Sigismund (i)illus.
kidnapping of (i)
peace initiatives (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Peace Statement (FDR) (i)
People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) (i)
Petain, Marshal Philippe, ‘Hero of Verdun’ (i)
Phipps, Sir Eric (i), (ii)
‘Phoney War’ (i), (ii), (iii)
Picture Post (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii)
Pitschen (Poland) (i)
Pius XII, Pope (Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli) (i), (ii), (iii)
Poland (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) see also German-Soviet pact; invasion of Poland (‘Case White’)
armed forces (i), (ii)
Britain’s guarantee (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi)
brutality of occupation (i)
Christmas 1939 (i)
entreaties to French (i)
fall (i)
and German aggression (i), (ii), (iii)
German ambassador to (i)
government-in-exile (i)
Hitler’s sixteen proposals (i)
military strength (i), (ii), (iii)
pre-war mood (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
requests RAF support (i)
resistance (i)
Soviet threat (i)
surrounded (i)
warning to Gemany (i)
Polish Corridor (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
falls to Germans (i)
Polish Post Office (Danzig) (i)
Polish-German Agreement (i)
Poniatowski, Prince Joseph (i)
Pope, Alex (i)
Post, Evert (i)
Pottinger, Captain Charles (i)
Pound, Admiral Sir Dudley (i)illus., (ii), (iii),
Present Laughter (1939) (i)
Priday, Corporal Thomas (i)
Prien, Kapitänleutnant Gunther (i), (ii), (iii)illus.
propaganda see also Royal Air Force
British (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
French (i), (ii)
German (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)illus., (viii)illus., (ix), (x), (xi), (xii) (see also Joyce, William (Lord Haw-Haw))
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