Malta Conference (Cricket; January–February 1945) 540
and Operation Anvil 465, 494, 495, 505, 506
replaces Dill in Washington 530
takes over Mediterranean command 449, 455
Wilson, Woodrow 17, 18, 19, 199
Winant, John Gilbert ‘Gil’ 100, 231, 243, 257–8, 292, 564
Winchester College 103
Windsor, Edward, Duke of 61, 374
Wingate, Major-General Orde 348, 391, 409
Winter Storm, Operation 305, 587
Wolfe, General James 42, 395, 396
Wolfsschanze (Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair) 456
Women’s Royal Naval Service 435
Woolwich xxxix, 14, 94
World at War, The (television series) 202, 339
Wrangel, General Pyotr xxxix Wright (Lance-Corporal) 443
WW1 (strategy document) 68–70, 71, 255–6, 345
see also CCS 94
Yalta Conference (February 1945) xl, 536–7, 545–57, 577
Yamamoto, Admiral Isoroku 348
Yorktown, Virginia 363–4
Younger Mr Pitt, The (film) 258
Ypres 37
Yugoslavia 308, 349, 371, 410, 426, 459, 483, 486, 490, 579, 588
Yunnan 437, 438
Yusopov Villa, Koreis 550
Zeebrugge 125
Zhukov, Marshal Georgi 276, 383
About the Author
ANDREW ROBERTS is the author of A History of the English-Speaking People Since 1900. His other books include Napoleon and Wellington, Eminent Churchillians, and Salisbury, which won the Wolfson Prize for History. Roberts’s writing appears regularly in The Wall Street Journal. His website can be found at www.andrew-roberts.net.
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Part I
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Part II
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7
Photographic Insert
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Part III
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Conclusion
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Notes
Bibliography
Searchable Terms
About the Author
Other Books by Andrew Roberts
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
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