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Second World War, The

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by Corrigan, Gordon

Devers, General Jacob

  Diego Garcia

  Dieppe Raid

  Dietl, General Eduard

  Dietrich Obergruppenführer Sepp

  Dill, Field Marshal Sir John

  Dinant

  Dinapur

  Djedeida

  Djefna

  Dnieper, river

  Dniester, river

  Dodecanese

  Dollmann, General Friedrich

  Don, river

  Donets, river

  Dönitz, Admiral Karl

  Doolittle, General James

  Doorman, Admiral Karel

  Dorman-Smith, General Eric

  ‘Chink’

  Dorman-Smith, Sir Reginald

  Douhet, Giulio

  Dowding, Air Marshal Sir Hugh

  Dresden

  Dubissa, river

  Dulles, Alan

  Dunaburg

  Dunkirk evacuation

  Durban

  Düsseldorf

  Dutch East Indies

  Dvina, river

  Dyle, river

  East Germany

  East India Company

  EastPrussia

  Eban Emael

  Echternach

  Eden, Anthony

  Edward VIII, King

  Egypt

  Italian invasion

  Eichelberger, General Robert L.

  Eisenhower, Dwight D.

  and allied advance

  and Battle of the Bulge

  and Italian campaign

  and Normandy landings

  and North Africa

  and the Philippines

  presidency

  Ekaterinburg

  El Adem

  El Agheila

  El Alamein

  first battle

  second battle

  El Beida

  El Duda

  Elbe, river

  Elizabeth II, Queen

  Enna

  Eritrea

  Ernst, Oberfeldwebel Albert

  Esquire magazine

  Essen

  Estéva, Admiral Pierre

  Estonia

  eugenics

  European Union

  euthanasia

  Exclusion Act

  Falaise gap

  Falklands War

  Fatnassa

  Fegelein, Obergruppenführer Hermann

  Felonica

  Ferrara

  Fiji

  Filipino army

  Fillmore, Millard

  Finland

  and invasion of Soviet Union

  Winter War

  withdrawal from war

  Firenzuola

  First World War

  Fisher, Admiral Sir Jackie

  Flensburg

  Fletcher, Admiral Frank

  Florence

  Foch, General Ferdinand

  Foglia, river

  Folkestone

  Foochoy

  forced labour

  Ford Motor Company

  Formasaccia

  Formosa (Taiwan)

  Forosten

  Fraatz, Captain-Lieutenant Georg-Werner

  France

  entry into war

  German invasion

  German occupation

  post-war

  rearmament

  and Spanish Civil War

  see also Vichy France

  Franchet d’Espèrey, Marshal Louis

  Franco, General Francisco

  Franco Polo, Carmen

  Franco-Prussian War

  Franc-Tireur

  Fraser, Admiral Sir Bruce

  Fredendall, General Lloyd

  Frederick the Great

  Frederick William I, Elector of Brandenburg

  Free French

  and Madagascar

  and Operation Torch

  Freissner, General Johannes

  French, Field Marshal Sir John

  French Army

  French colonies

  French Committee for National Liberation

  French Foreign Legion

  French Indo-China

  French navy

  French North Africa (Operation Torch)

  French Resistance

  French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

  French Riviera

  Freyberg, General Bernard

  Frick, Wilhelm

  Fricke, Admiral Kurt

  Friedeburg, General Hans-Georg

  Frigido, river

  Fritsche, Hans

  Fromm, General Friedrich

  Front National

  Fukien province

  Futa Pass

  Gabes

  Gabr Saleh

  Gafsa

  Galicia

  Gallipoli campaign

  Galloway, Brigadier ‘Sandy’

  Gamelin, General Maurice-Gustave

  Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand

  Gariboldi, General Italo

  Garigliano, river

  Gatehouse, General ‘Alec’

  Gatow airport

  Gau Gotland

  Gau Moselland

  Gavutu

  Gazala, 20, 206, 212–

  ‘Geddes Axe’

  Gehlen, Lieutenant-Colonel Reinhard

  Gemiano

  Geneva Convention

  George V, King

  George VI, King

  Georgia

  German army

  allegiance to Hitler

  and invasion of Poland

  and atrocities

  and invasion of Soviet Union

  and Normandy landings

  organization

  post-war

  relations with SS

  reorganization of armour

  and Stalingrad

  German East Africa

  German Labour Front

  German navy (Kriegsmarine)

  Germany

  and allied advance

  anti-Hitler movement

  banking collapse

  Dawes Plan

  death toll

  domestic conditions

  entry into war

  and history

  and Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

  post-war

  rearmament

  and Spanish Civil War

  and strategic bombing campaign

  support for war

  surrender

  treatment of Jews

  and unconditional surrender

  unemployment

  union with Austria

  war crimes trials

  war economy

  Weimar Republic

  winter relief campaign

  Young Plan

  ‘Germany First’ policy

  Gersdorf, General Rudolf-Christoph Freiherr von

  Gestapo

  GI Bill

  Gibraltar

  Gideon Force

  Giffard, General Sir George

  Gilbert Islands

  Giraud, General Henri

  Gironde, river

  Glasgow

  Gleiwitz

  ‘gliding clubs’

  Godwin-Austen, General Alfred

  Goebbels, Josef

  Gold Coast

  gold standard

  Golikov, General Filipp

  Gordon, General Charles George ‘Chinese’

  Göring, Hermann

  Gort, Field Marshal Lord

  Gothic Line

  Goto, Admiral Aritomo

  Gott, General William ‘Strafer’

  Gowrie, General Lord

  Gran Sasso

  Grand Duchy of Warsaw

  Graziani, Marshal Rudolfo

  Great Depression

  Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere

  Greece

  allied intervention

  Italian invasion

  resistance and civil war

  Greiffenberg, General Hans von

  GRU

  Guadalcanal

  Guam

  Guderian, General Heinz

  gul
ags

  Gulf of Aden

  Gulf of Finland

  Gulf of Leyte

  Gulf of Riga

  Gurkhas

  Gurun

  Gustav Line

  Guzzoni, General Alfredo

  Gyaing, river

  Hachana

  Hagen Line

  Hague Convention

  Haig, General Sir Douglas

  Hainan Island

  Haiphong

  Haiti

  Haldane, Lord

  Halder, General Franz

  Halfaya Pass

  Halifax, Lord

  Halifax, Nova Scotia

  Halsey, Admiral William

  Hamburg

  Hammerstein-Equord, General Kurt Freiherr von

  Hangchow

  Harris, Air Marshal Sir Arthur

  Hart, Admiral Thomas

  Harvard University

  Harwood, Admiral Sir Henry

  Hasler, Major Herbert, 503

  Hausser, Obergruppenführer Paul

  Hawaii

  Heath, General Sir Lewis

  ‘hedgehogs’

  Heim, General Ferdinand

  Heinrici, General Gotthard

  Hellespont

  Hendaye conference

  Henderson Field

  HenryV,King

  Henry VIII, King

  Henry of Navarre

  Hess, Rudolf

  Heydrich, Obergruppenführer Reinhard

  Himmler, Reichsführer Heinrich

  Hindenburg, Paul von

  Hirohito, Emperor

  Hiroshima

  Hitler, Adolf

  and allied advance

  assassination attempt

  and Battle of the Bulge

  and the Blitz

  his death

  and defeat of Britain

  and Hendaye conference

  and invasion of Low Countries

  and invasion of Poland

  and invasion of Soviet Union

  and Italian campaign

  and Japan

  and Mussolini

  and Normandy landings

  and North Africa

  and popular support

  and Stalingrad

  and the USA

  Hitler Line

  Hitler Youth

  Hoare–Laval Pact

  Hodges, General Courtney

  Hoepner, General Erich

  Holland

  German invasion

  German occupation

  Jews

  Holocaust denial

  Holste, General Rudolf

  Home Guard

  Homma, Masaharu

  Hong Kong

  Japanese atrocities

  Honshu

  Hoover, Herbert

  Hore-Belisha, Leslie

  Hornbeck, StanleyK.

  Horrocks, General Brian

  horses

  see also cavalry

  Horthy, Admiral Mikló

  Hoth, General Herman

  Hube, General Hans

  Hugh-Jones, Brigadier

  Hull, Cordell

  Hump, the

  Hungary

  Hutton, General Thomas

  Huxley

  Huy

  Hyakutake, General Harukichi

  Iceland

  Ichiki, Colonel Kiyono

  Ickes, Harold

  Ieyasu, Tokugawa

  Imamura, General Hitoshi

  Imperial Defence College

  Imphal

  Indaw

  India

  Bengal famine

  defence of

  independence movement

  and occupation of Madagascar

  post-war

  and retreat from Burma

  Indian Army

  Indian Congress Party

  Indian National Army

  Inland Sea

  International Brigades

  international law

  International Monetary Conference

  internment

  IRA

  Iraq

  Iraq War

  Ireland

  iron ore

  Ironside, General Edmund

  Irrawaddy, river

  Irwin, General Stephan

  island-hopping

  Isle of Man

  Israel

  Istria

  Italian air force

  Italian Army

  Italian navy

  Italy

  allied invasion

  change of regime

  domestic, conditions

  entry into war

  German surrender

  and invasion of Soviet Union

  opposition to war

  overseas campaigns

  post-war

  and Spanish Civil War

  surrender

  treatment of Jews

  and unconditional surrender

  Iwabuchi, Admiral Sanji

  Iwo Jima

  Jacobstadt

  Jaenecke, General Erwin

  Japan

  and allied invasion

  Anglo-Japanese treaty

  and atomic bombs

  and China

  coup attempt

  domestic conditions

  entry into war

  and peace moves

  and Pearl Harbor attack

  post-war

  and strategic bombing campaign

  surrender

  and unconditional surrender

  war crimes trials

  war with Soviet Union

  see also Russo-Japanese War

  Japanese Army

  and atrocities

  Japanese navy

  Java

  Jeschonnek, General Hans

  Jessleton

  Jewish Brigade

  Jews

  Belgian

  and Catholic Church

  Channel Islands

  and communism

  Danish

  Dutch

  and Final Solution

  in First World War

  French

  German treatment of

  Hungarian

  and Israel

  Italian

  Polish

  revenge gangs

  Soviet

  and terrorism

  Jitra

  Jodl, General Hans

  Johore

  Jordan, General Hans

  Juin, General Alphonse

  Junge, Obersturmführer Hans

  Junge, Traudl

  Kaiser, Henry J.

  Kalach

  Kalapanzin, river

  Kalatsch

  Kalinin, Mikhail

  Kalinin

  Kamchatka peninsula

  Kamenev, Lev

  kamikaze attacks

  Kandy

  Karelia

  Kassel

  Kasserine Pass

  Katyn Forest massacre

  Katyusha rockets

  Kawabe, General Masakazu

  Kazakhstan

  Kedah

  Keitel, Field Marshal Wilhelm

  Kempeitai

  Kempf, General Werner

  Kennedy, Joseph

  Kenya

  Kerama Retto islands

  Kerch peninsula

  Kesselring, Field Marshal Albert

  and Italian campaign

  Keyes, Admiral Sir Roger

  Kharkov

  Khrushchev, Nikita

  Kiev

  Kimmel, Admiral Husband E.

  Kimura, General Heitaro

  Kincaid, Admiral Thomas

  King, Admiral Ernest

  Kirponos, General Mikhail

  Kiska

  Kitchener, General Horatio Herbert

  Kleist, General Ewald von

  Klopper, General Hendrik

  Kluge, Field Marshal Günter von

  Kobe

  Koblenz

  Koëltz, General Marie-Louis

  Kohima

  Koiso, Kuniaki

  Koki, Hirota

  Kokoda T
rail

  Komorowski, General Tadeusz

  Konev, Marshal Ivan

  Königsberg

  Konoe, Prince Fumimaro

  Koppets, General Ivan

  Korea

  Korean War

  Korndorf, battle of

  Korsun Pocket

  Kosovo

  Köstring, General Ernst August

  Kota Bharu

  Krais, General Dieter

  Krasnodar

  Krebs, General Hans

  Kredit Anstalt collapse

  Kristallnacht

  Krueger, General Walter

  Krupp industries

  Kuala Lumpur

  Kuantan

  Kuban, river

  Kuban peninsula

  Kuching

  Kuchler, General Georg von

  Kuebler, General Ludwig

  Kuo Min Tang, see Chinese , Nationalists

  Kuribayashi, General Tadamichi

  Kurile Islands

  Kurita, Admiral Takeo

  Kuroda, General Shigenori

  Kursk

  Küstrin

  Kutznetsov, General Fyodor

  Kuybyshev

  KwantungArmy

  Kyaukse

  Kyondo

  Kyushu

  La Linea

  La Ringhera

  Laaken Castle

  Labour Party

  Labuan

  Lae

  Laffin, John

  Lake Balaton

  Lake Comacchio

  Lake Garda

  Lake Khasan

  Lake Lagoda

  Lampedusa

  Laos

  Lasch, General Otto

  Lashio

  Lattre de Tassigny, General Jean de

  Latvia

  Laval, Pierre

  Lawrence, D. H.

  Lawrence, Lord Justice Geoffrey

  Lawrence, T. E.

  Laycock, General Robert

  Le Kef

  Le May, General Curtis

  League of Nations

  Lebensraum

  Leclerc, General Philippe

  Ledo

  Leeb, Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von

  Leese, General Oliver

  Leigh-Mallory, Air Marshal Sir Trafford

  Leipzig

  Lend-Lease programme

  Lenin, V. I.

  Leningrad

  Lentaigne, Brigadier Joe

  Leonforte

  Leopold, King of the Belgians

  Lepel

  Ley, Robert

  Leyte

  Lezaky

  L’Humanité

  Libau

  Libération

  Liberia

  Liberty Ships

  Libya

  Liddell Hart, Sir Basil

  Lidice

  Liège

  Liegnitz

  Ligurian Sea

  Lindemann, General Georg

  Lingayen

  Linlithgow, Marquis of

  Lippstadt

  Liri Valley

  Lisbon

  List, Field Marshal Sigmund von

  Lithuania

  Liverpool

  Lloyd, General Wilfred

  Lloyd George, David

  Lomax, General C. E. N.

  Lombardy marshes

  London

  and the Blitz

  and V rocket attacks

  London Naval Agreement

  Lopatin, General Anton

  Louisades Archipelago

  Louvain

  Lublin

  Lubny

  Lucas, General John P.

  Lucca

  Luftwaffe

  and Battle of Britain

  and Battle of the Bulge

  and the Blitz

  and invasion of Soviet Union

  and North Africa

  and Stalingrad

  threat to Mediterranean

  Luleå

  Lumsden, General Herbert

 

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