Masters and Commanders
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on Italian campaign 481
on King 491, 523
London Combined Chiefs of Staff talks (June 1944) 491, 492
Malta Conference (Cricket; January–February 1945) 539, 540, 541
and Montgomery 512, 531, 535, 564
motoring accident 483
Octagon (Second Quebec) Conference (September 1944) 512, 513, 516, 517, 520–21, 521–2, 523, 525–6, 540
and Operation Anvil/Dragoon 492, 495, 496, 501, 506, 508
and Operation Iceberg 553–4
and Operation Torch 257
replaces Pound 416, 419
and Stalin 444
Teheran Conference (Eureka; November 1943) 444
Victory in Europe Day 570, 571
Yalta Conference (February 1945) 545, 552, 553–4, 555, 557
A Sailor’s Odyssey xxxix, 442
Cunningham, Vice-Admiral Sir John 539, 540
Cunningham, Nona, Lady 540
Curtin, John 91, 481
Curzon, George, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston 34
Curzon Line 451
Cyprus 328
Cyrenaica 63, 85, 88, 264
Czechoslovakia 61, 183, 569
D-Day 487–90, 573
advance planning for 52
Canadian forces 273
casualties 487
importance of air power 19, 489
number of German divisions 219, 488
Omaha Beach 489
Sword Beach 232
Utah Beach 29
Daily Express 230
Daily Mirror 230
Daily Telegraph 463, 467
Dakar 121, 168, 220
Dakota (transport aircraft) 562–3
Dambusters Raid 391
Danchev, Alex 78, 580
Daniels, Josephus 18
Dardanelles 425, 426, 429, 442
Dardanelles Campaign (Great War) 16, 20, 22, 106, 220, 235–7
see also Gallipoli, battle of
Darlan, Admiral Jean François 297–8, 299–300, 310, 311
Darwin, Australia 117
Davidson, Major-General Francis 277, 383
Dead Sea 443
Deakin, (Sir) William 295, 413
Deane, General John R. 314, 333, 378, 448, 527
Decision before Dawn (film) 363
Declaration of Liberated Europe (1945) 555–6
Dee, River 494, 569
Defence Committee (British) see War
Cabinet Defence Committee Deficient, Operation 588
Democratic Party 19, 203, 290
Dempsey, General Sir Miles 562
Denikin, Lieutenant-General Anton xxxix
Denmark 76, 488, 566, 570
Depression, Great 19, 25, 53, 59
Desert Training Center, California 207
Devers, Lieutenant-General Jacob L. 455, 504
Dewey, Admiral George 18
Dewey, Thomas E. 528
Diadem offensive (May 1944) 481, 586
Diego Suárez 124
Dieppe 222
Raid (Operation Jubilee) 227, 250, 272–4, 277, 291, 586
Dietrich, Otto 583
Dijon 500, 508
Dill, Field Marshal Sir John
appearance and character 73, 82, 142, 327
Arcadia (First Washington) Conference (December 1941–January 1942) 66, 73, 79
Argonaut (Second Washington) Conference (June 1942) 188, 190, 193, 199
and British Expeditionary Force (1940) 36, 39, 55
Casablanca Conference (January 1943) 314, 317, 318, 321, 327, 333–4, 335, 344
on CCS 94
memorandum 255–6
on Churchill 275
and Churchill’s ‘Bay of Bengal Strategy’ 471, 474
and creation of Combined Chiefs of
Staff system 74, 76–8, 91, 99, 102
death 76, 529–30, 544
and development of Mediterranean policy after Operation Torch 300, 306–7
first meets Brooke 21
friendship with Marshall 54, 76–7, 141
his clique 95–6
illness 495, 502
at Imperial Defence College 21
inspection of troops at Fort Jackson (June 1942) 207
on King 462–3
and Marshall’s Japan First alternative 233–5, 239, 240–41
and Marshall’s reading of Soldiers and
Statesmen (Robertson) 235, 237, 241
and Operation Ajax 47
and Operation Anvil 476, 478, 479
and Operation Gymnast 229–30, 231
and Operation Torch 261–2, 263, 274–5, 282, 296
and plans for Operation Overlord 428, 462–3
posthumous Distinguished Service Medal 538
proposal for reciprocal attached Staff officers on British and American
Planning Staff 426–7
Quadrant (First Quebec) Conference (August 1943) 395, 401, 403
and reinforcement of Middle East 124
relationship with Churchill 55–6
religious faith 42
retired as CIGS 46, 55–6
Riviera Conference (August 1941) 54
and Roosevelt’s unconditional surrender policy 476
at Staff College, Camberley 94
Trident (Third Washington) Conference (May 1943) 358, 361, 367, 368
and Wedemeyer’s secret taping of
British Planning Staff 223
working relationship with Marshall 77–8, 529, 575
Dill, Nancy, Lady 529
Dimbleby, Richard 166
Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire 41
Djilas, Milovan 486
Dnieper, River 463
Dniester, River 467
Dobson, William 142
Dodecanese Islands 300, 341, 411, 412, 413, 425, 432, 574, 577
Dodona Manor, Virginia 29, 76, 169, 196, 232
Don, River 305
Donat, Robert 258
Donegal Castle 13
Donnelly, General Charles 381, 406, 434, 436, 437, 438, 439, 492, 516, 520, 530, 545, 546, 549
Donovan, Colonel William J. ‘Wild Bill’ 94
Dorman-Smith, Brigadier Eric 268
Douglas, Lewis 217, 436
Douglas, Air Marshal Sir William Sholto (later Baron Douglas of Kirtleside) 141, 434, 437, 482
Dover 386, 394, 409
Dracula, Operation 586
Dragoon, Operation 505, 506, 508, 509, 516, 518, 578
Drax, Admiral Sir Ranfurly 278
Dresden 540, 564
Drew, James 39–40
Duchess of Richmond’s ball (1815) 203, 553
Duke of York, HMS 66, 68, 156
Dulwich College 94
Dunkirk 37–8, 55, 106, 125, 214–15, 220, 272, 394, 447
Dupuy, Trevor 354–5
Dutch East Indies 67, 79, 126, 171
Dutchess County, New York 52
Dykes, Brigadier Vivian ‘Dumbie’
Argonaut (Second Washington) Conference (June 1942) 190, 193
Casablanca Conference (January 1943) 314, 320, 337
character 94
code for communicating with Jacob 93–4
diary xxxviii, 94
in Dill’s clique 95, 96
education and career 94
on Harry Hopkins 79
killed 348
and Marshall Memorandum 132, 133
relations with Bedell Smith 94, 95
E-boats 563
EAM (Greek National Liberation Front) 58, 527
Early, Stephen T. 212, 243
Eden, Anthony (later 1st Earl of Avon)
accused of vanity 10
on Beaverbrook 264
on Brooke 56
Brooke’s views on 162
and CCS 94
memorandum 256
at Chequers 47, 298
on Churchill 89, 179, 501–2
colonial policy 313
deprecates Churchill’s proposed visit to
Middle East 225
d
iary xxxviii
and Eisenhower’s policy towards
Darlan 298, 300, 311
entrusted with formation of government in event of Churchill’s death 186
and Far East strategy 504
First Cairo Conference (Sextant; November 1943) 439, 443
and de Gaulle 352, 353
on Italian campaign 460
keen to abolish Defence Committee 110
and Marshall’s first mission to London (Modicum; April 1942) 141, 149, 153, 156, 166
and Marshall’s second mission to London (July 1942) 247, 257–8
on massacre of Jews 305–6
naivety about Soviet Union’s post-war intentions 356
and Operation Anvil 495
and Operation Roundup 307
and Operation Torch 280, 281, 286–7, 292
outside strategic decision-making process 81–2, 131
and Poland 526
prime-minister-in-waiting 460
and proposal to bomb German villages 183
and Quadrant (First Quebec) Conference (August 1943) 391
and replacement of Pound 415–16
on Roosevelt 411
and Roosevelt’s death 567
and Russian convoys 178, 179
and Turkey 417–18
in War Cabinet 82, 227
at White House dinner 61
Yalta Conference (February 1945) 554
Egypt
American supplies to 171
Axis advances in 3–4, 62
British interests 84
cleared of Afrika Korps 291, 292
defence of 181–2, 185, 228
hunting in 13
‘must be held’ 126
Ehrman, John 163
Eichelberger, Major-General Robert L., Jungle Road to Tokyo 208
Eighth Army (British)
abandons Gazala Line 179
enters Tripoli 344
Italian campaign 411, 413, 510
Montgomery takes over command 265–9
potential organizational difficulties with American support 207
recaptures Bardia 85
recaptures Benghazi 310
retreat in North Africa 183, 217
surrender at Tobruk 3
Tunisian campaign 323, 354–5
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Algiers strategy talks (May–June 1943) 373, 376–7, 378, 379
appointed commander of US forces in Europe 174–5, 177–8
appointed supreme commander of Operation Overlord 414–15, 424, 452–3, 455, 577
Argonaut (Second Washington) Conference (June 1942) 190, 193, 194, 196, 198
battle of the Bulge (1944–5) 533, 534–5
broad-front strategy 511, 531, 542, 577
Brooke’s views on 162
build-up for Operation Overlord 457, 464–5, 482
Casablanca Conference (January 1943) 317, 323, 324–5
character 100, 280, 544
command of land forces in France 510, 511, 512, 516, 538, 543
on Cunningham 419
D-Day 487–8, 489
and deputy commander’s post 538, 559–60
diaries xxxviii
early career 162–3
First Cairo Conference (Sextant; November 1943) 423
at Fort Benning 24, 562
and Germany First policy 69, 232
heads Operations Division (OPD) 114, 120, 123
and inspection of troops at Fort Jackson (June 1942) 208
liaison with Red Army 551
in Marshall’s clique 95
and Marshall’s Japan First alternative 232
and Marshall’s mission to London (Modicum; July 1942) 243, 251
mission to London (May–June 1942) 174–5, 177
negotiations between Vichy and Free French 311
and Operation Anvil/Dragoon 457–8, 461–2, 464, 467, 494–6, 506
Operation Husky 335, 369, 382, 424
and Operation Sledgehammer 187, 194, 251
Operation Torch 261, 262, 274, 279–82, 284, 287–8, 291, 382, 424–5
plans for Allied advance into Germany 529, 530, 532, 539, 540, 541–2, 562, 563–5, 566
plans for early invasion of Europe 121, 125, 128, 129
plans for invasion of mainland Italy 385, 387, 389, 408–9, 409–10, 413, 456
policy towards Darlan 297–8, 299–300, 311
and post-war partition of Germany 568–9
as president xxxix, 414, 544
reputation 414, 578
suspicious of British commitment to cross-Channel invasion 221–2
and Trident (Third Washington) Conference (May 1943) 366
Tunisian campaign 299, 303, 311, 312, 323, 354–5, 381–2, 542–3
At Ease 280, 376
Crusade in Europe 66, 221–2
Eisenhower, John 531
El Agheila 63
El Alamein 207, 265, 272, 289, 291, 294, 295, 346, 390, 541, 561, 582
ELAS (Greek National Popular
Liberation Army) 527, 528
Elbe, River 542, 564
elections
American (1932) 19, (1940) 45, 50, (1942) 199, 203, 211–12, 262, 281, 290, (1944) 314, 361, 370, 431, 452, 499, 526, 527, 528, (1952) 414, 544
British 164, (1935) 286, (1945) 406–7, 431
east European 555, 557, 566
Eleventh Army (German) 305
Elisabeth, Tsarina of Russia 567
Elizabeth I, Queen 258
Elizabeth II, Queen 584
Embick, General Stanley D. 131