provincial theatres (i)
Prueller, Wilhelm: war diaries (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x)
Raczynski, Edward (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Raeder, Admiral Erich (i), (ii)illus.
Raleigh, John ‘Jack’ McCutcheon (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
rationing: food and petrol (i)
Rawalpindi, HMS (armed merchant cruiser) (i)illus.
Red Army (i)illus., (ii)
refugees (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) see also evacuation
Reichenau, General Walther (i)
Reichstag (i), (ii)illus.
Remembrance Day, 1939 (i)
Rex, Jessie (i), (ii)
Reynaud, Paul (i), (ii)
Ribbentrop, Joachim von (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)illus., (vi)illus., (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi), (xvii), (xviii), (xix), (xx), (xxi), (xxii), (xxiii), (xxiv), (xxv)
River Plate, Battle of (i)
RMS Athlone Castle (i)
Roberts, Cecil (i), (ii)
Roosevelt, Franklin D (FDR) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi)
Rothenstein, John (i), (ii)
Roumania (i), (ii), (iii)
Royal Air Force (i), (ii), (iii)illus., (iv), (v)
assault on German Fleet (i)
commencement of hostilities (i), (ii)
leaflet drops over Germany (i), (ii), (iii)illus.
Royal Navy (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
commencement of hostilities (i), (ii), (iii)
hits and losses (i)
Royal Oak, HMS (battleship) (i), (ii)
‘Run, Rabbit, Run’ (i), (ii)
Russell, John (i), (ii), (iii)
Russell, William (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Russia-German Pact see German-Soviet pact
‘Saar Offensive’ (i), (ii)illus.
Savage, Michael Joseph (i), (ii)
Scarles, Sir Edward (i)
Schellenberg, Walter (i)
Schleswig-Holstein (battleship) (i), (ii), (iii)
Schmidt, Dr Paul (i)illus., (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Schuhart, Kapitänleutnant Otto (i), (ii)illus.
Schulenberg, Friedrich-Werner von der (i)
Schultz, Sigrid (i), (ii)
2nd September 1939 (i)
Seeds, Sir William (i), (ii)
Sewell, J F (i), (ii)
Shape of Things to Come, The (H G Wells) (i), (ii), (iii)
Shaw, George Bernard (i)
Shipyard Sally (i), (ii)
Shirer, William (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Shkvartsev, Alexander (i), (ii)illus.
Sikorski, General Wladyslaw (i)
Simon, Sir John (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)illus., (vi), (vii), (viii)
Sinclair, Sir Archibald (i), (ii)
Slovakia (i), (ii), (iii) see also Czecho-Slovakia
Smigly-Rydz, Marshal (i), (ii)
Smuts, General Jan Christian (i), (ii)
South Africa, Union of (i)
Southern Cross (yacht) (i), (ii)
Soviet-Japanese War (1939) (i)
Spain (i), (ii), (iii)
Spanish Civil War (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Spears, Sir Edward (i), (ii)
Speed, Florence: war diaries (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
Speer, Albert (i)
Spender, Stephen (i)
Spier, Eugen (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler (i), (ii)
St Paul’s Choir School (i)
Stalin, Josef (i), (ii), (iii)illus., (iv), (v)illus., (vi), (vii)
Stanley, Oliver (i), (ii)
Starzynski, Stefan (i)
Stevens, Major Richard (i)illus., (ii)
kidnapping of (i)
Strang, William (i), (ii), (iii)
Strange, Joan Colebrook: war diaries (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv), (xv), (xvi)
Stroheimer, Consuela (i)
Sudeten Crisis (i), (ii)
Sunday Express (i), (ii), (iii)
Tate Gallery: evacuation of works of art (i), (ii)
Terijoki (i)
Territorial Army (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
The Times (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)
theatres in London (i)
3rd September 1939 (i)
Thomas, Gwyneth (i), (ii)
Train, Jack (i)
Tucheler Hide, Battle of the (1939) (i)illus.
Tweedsmuir, Lord (John Buchan) (i)
Tyler, Dorothy (i), (ii)
U-29 (i)
U-30 (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)illus.
U-39 (i)
U-47 (i)
U-boats (i), (ii)
ultimatum to Germany (i), (ii), (iii)
Britain’s (i), (ii), (iii)
France’s (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)
Germany’s response (i)
synchronising British and French (i)
United States (i), (ii)
neutrality (i), (ii), (iii)
Urbsys, Juozas (i)illus.
Valois, Ninette (i)
Vanquisher, HMS (i)
Venlo Incident (i)
Versailles, Treaty of (1919) (i), (ii), (iii)
Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy and Albania (i), (ii), (iii)
Vivian, Sir Sylvanus (i), (ii)
Voroshilov, Marshal Klementi (i)
Wagner, Adolf (i), (ii)
Walker-Fryett, Pax (i)
Wallenius, General Martii (i)
War Cabinet (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)illus., (vii), (viii)
war films (i)
War Illustrated (i), (ii), (iii)
war in the air (i)
Warnock, William (i)
Warren, Elsie (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii), (ix)
Warsaw (i), (ii)
wartime entertainment (i)
wartime songs (i), (ii), (iii)
Watussi (German liner) (i)
Waugh, Evelyn (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
Wedgwood-Benn, Anthony (i), (ii)
Weiss, Bernhard (i), (ii), (iii)
Weizsacker, Ernst von (i), (ii), (iii)
Wenner-Gren, Axel (i), (ii)
Wenzel, Major Friederich Wilhelm (i)
‘We’re Gonna Hang Out the Washing on the Siegfried Line’ (i)
Werth, Alexander (i), (ii), (iii)
Western Front (i), (ii), (iii)
Wilson, Norman Scarlyn (i), (ii), (iii)
Windsor, Duke of (fmly Edward VIII, King) (i), (ii), (iii)
Winter War (i)
wireless (i)
Wise, Nan (i)
‘Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye’ (i), (ii)
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) (i)
Wood, Sir Kingsley (i), (ii), (iii)illus., (iv), (v), (vi)illus.
Wyndham, Joan (i), (ii)
Zhukov, General Georgi (i)
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