Lüneburg Heath
Lushio
Lüttwitz, General Smilo Freiherr von
Luxembourg
Luzon
Lvov
Lyons
Lys, river
Lytton, Lord
MacArthur, General Douglas
and Japan
and Pacific islands campaign
and the Philippines
McAuliffe, General Anthony
McCreery, General Sir Richard
MacDonald, Ramsay
Macedonia
Machiavelli, Niccolò
Mackensen, General Eberhard
Madagascar
Madang
Madjanek
Madonna del Silvaro
Madrid
Magdeburg
Maginot Line
Manhattan Project
Maikop
Malacca
Malakand Field Force
malaria
Malaya
communist insurgency
liberation and Japanese surrender
and loss of battleships
and retreat from Burma
Maleme
Malmedy
Malta
Maltby, General Christopher
Man Who Never Was’ deception
Manchester
Manchuria (Manchukuo)
Manchus
Mandalay
Manila
Mannerheim, Marshal Carl
Manstein, Field Marshal Erich von
Manteuffel, General Hasso-Eccard Freiherr von
Mao Tse-Tung
Maquis
Mareth Line
Margate
Mariana Islands
Marlborough, Duke of
Marochia
Marsa Al Borayquah
Marseille
Marshall Islands
Marshall, General George C.
Marshall Plan
Marshall Plan (post-war)
Martaban
mass graves
Massa
Mass-Observation
Masters, John
Matmata Hills
Matsui, General Iwane
Matsuoka, Yosuke
Matteotti, Giacomo
Maungdaw
Maur, river
Mayawaddi
Mayu peninsula
Medenine
Medicina
Medina Sidonia, Duke of
Medjez El Bab
Meida
Meiktila
Mein Kampf
Mellenthin, General Friedrich von
Memel
Memel, river
Meretskov, General Kirill
Mergui
Mers el Kebir
Mersa Matruh
Messe, General Giovanni
Messervy, General Frank
Messina
Metauro, river
Metaxas Line
Meuse, river
Mexico
Mezzegra
MI6
Michael, King, of Romania
Michigan
Midway Island
Mihailovi , Colonel Draža
Milan
Milch, Field Marshal Erhard
military organization
Mindanao
Mindoro
Minsk
Minturno
Miri
Mitau
Mitchell, Colonel ‘Billy’
Mitscher, Admiral Marc
Model, Field Marshal Walter
and Battle of the Bulge
Mogaung
Mohne Dam
Molotov, Vyacheslav
Molotov–Ribbentrop pact
Moluccas
Mongol armies
Mongolia
Mohnke, Brigadeführer Wilhelm
Mons, retreat from
Monschau
Monte Cassino
Monte Coriano
Monte Grande
Monte Vergato
Montecorvino
Montevideo
Montgomery, Field Marshal Bernard Law
and allied advance
and Arnhem operation
and Battle of the Bulge
and Berlin
and Italian campaign
and Normandy campaign
and North Africa
his personal aircraft
Montormel
Monywa
Moore, General Sir John
Moravia
Morgan, General Sir Frederick
Marmon-Herrington armoured cars
Morning Post
Morocco
Mortain
Moscow
German advance and Soviet defence
Moscow Conference
Moscow Radio
Moscow–Volga Canal
Moskwinka
Moulmein
Mount Elbrus
Mount Etna
Mount Suribachi
Mountbatten, Admiral Lord Louis
and SOE
Moyne, Lord
Mozambique
Mukden
Müller, General Eugen
Munich agreement
Muñoz Grandes, General Agustin
Murmansk
Murray-Lyon, General David
Mussert, Anton
Mussolini, Benito
his death
his downfall
and Hitler
and invasion of Soviet Union
and Jews
March on Rome
and North Africa
overseas campaigns
rescue by Germans
and Salo republic
Mutaguchi, Renya
mutinies
Myitkyina
Nagasaki
Nagoya
Nagumo, Admiral Chuichi
Nakagawa, Colonel Kunio
Namsos
Nanking
napalm
Naples
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon III
Narvik
National Committee for Free Germany
National Socialism
NATO
Nazi salute
Neame, General Philip
Neisse, river
Nelson, Admiral Horatio
Nemen, river
Nepal
Neutrality Acts
New Britain
New Caledonia
New Georgia
New Guinea
New Hebrides
New Yorker
New Zealand
Newcastle
Newfoundland
Nice
nickel
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Night of the Long Knives
Nijmegen
Nikolskoje
Nile, river
Nimitz, Admiral Chester W.
NKVD
NKVD troops
Nobuo, General Tanaka
Nolte, Colonel
Norfolk, Virginia
Normandy landings (Operation Overlord)
Norrie, General Willoughby
North Korea
North Sea
North-West Frontier
Norway
SOE operations
Norwegian campaign
Novorossiysk
Nowo-Dankilowo
Nuremberg
Nuremberg Laws
Nuremberg trials
Obersalzburg
Observer Corps
O’Connor, General Sir Richard
occupied countries
Oder,river
Odessa
O’Duffy, ‘General’ Eoin
Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
OGPU
oil
see also Caucasus oil fields
Persian oil fields
Romanian oil fields
Okinawa
Omdurman, battle of
Onishi, Admiral Takijiro
Oradour-sur-Glane
Oran
Ordzhonikidze
Ormoc
Ortona
Osaka
Owen Stanley rang
Oxford University
Ozawa, Admiral, Jisaburo
Pact of London
Padua
Palau
Palermo
Palestine
Panaro, river
Pantelleria
Pape, Major Günter
Papen, Franz von
Papua
Paris
Park, Air Marshal Sir Keith
Parma
partisans
Pas de Calais
Patani
Patch, General Alexander ‘Sandy’
Patton,GeorgeS.
and allied advance
and Battle of the Bulge
and Italian campaign
and North Africa
public apology
Paulus, Field Marshal Friedrich
Pavlov, General Dmitri
Pavlovsk
Pearl Harbor
Pearl River
Pearson, Drew
Pegu
Peirse, Air Marshal Sir Richard
Peking
Peleliu
penal battalions
Penang
Peninsula Campaign
Peninsular War
Percival, General Arthur
Perekop
Perlis
Perpignan
Perry, Commodore Matthew C.
Pershing, General John J. ‘Black Jack’
Persia
Persian oil fields
Pesaro
Petacci, Claretta (Clara)
pétain Marshal Philippe
Philippines
American recovery
Japanese invasion
Phillips, Admiral Sir Tom
Phoney War
Pitomnik
Pitt, William
Pius XI, Pope
Pius XII, Pope
Placentia Conference
Platt, General William
Po, river
Poincaré, Raymond
Poitiers, battle of
Poland
concentration camps
German invasion
German retreat and Soviet advance
and invasion of Soviet Union
Jews
post-war
Soviet invasion
Polish Army
Polish Corridor
Polish Home Army
political prisoners
Pomerania
Pont du Fahs
Ponte Grande
Pontine Marshes
Popov, General Markian
Port Arthur
Port Darwin
Port Moresby
Portal, Air Marshal Sir Charles
Portsmouth
Portugal
Potsdam
Potsdam conference
Potsdam Declaration
Pound, Admiral Sir Dudley
Pownall, General Sir Henry
Prague
Pravda
Priestley, J. B.
Primasole
Princeton University
Pripet Marshes
prisoners of war
Prome
propaganda
Proskurov, General Ivan
Prussia
Prut, river
Pu Yi, Emperor
Pyawbwe
Pyrenees
Python scheme
Quebec conference
Quezon, Manuel
Quisling, Vidkun
Rabaul
Race and Settlement Office
radar
Radio Berlin
Radio Tokyo
Raeder, Admiral Erich
RAF Alor Star
Ramsay, Admiral Sir Bertram
Ramsden, General William
Rangoon
rape
Rape of Nanking
Rapido, river
Rastenburg
Raus, General Erhard
Red Army
and atrocities
and folk-dancing
and German invasion
political commissars
purges
and Stalingrad
and Winter War
women soldiers
Red Cross
Reichel
Reichenau, Field Marshal Walter von
Reichstag, burning of
Reims
Reinhardt General Hans-Georg
Reitsch, Hanna
Remagen bridge
Rennes
Renton, General ‘Cal’
Reykjavik
Reynaud,Paul
Rhine,river
Rhineland
Rhodes
Ribbentrop,Joachimvon
rice
Richthofen, General Baron Wolfram von
Riga
Rimini
Rippert, Horst
Ritchie, General Neil
Roatta, General Mario
Roermond
Röhm,Ernst
Rokossovsky, Marshal Konstantin
Roman Catholic Church
Roman Empire
Romania
and invasion of Soviet Union
post-war
Romanian oil fields
Rome
Rommel, General Erwin
and Hitler bomb plot
and Normandy landings
and North African offensive
and North African retreat
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
his death
and ‘Germany First’ policy
and landings in Europe
meetings with Churchill
and US entry into war
and strategic bombing campaign
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rostov
Rosyth
Roumana Hills
Royal Air Force (RAF)
and Battle of Britain
and Far East
and gliders
and invasion threat
and naval aviation
and navigation
and North Africa
and strategic bombing campaign
and Winter War
Royal Military College Sandhurst
Royal Navy
and blockades
and convoys
and evacuations
and Far East
and invasion threat
and Madagascar
and Mediterranean
and naval aviation
and North Africa
and Norwegian campaign
and Russian Revolution
rubber
Ruhr
French occupation
Rundstedt, Field Marshal Gerd von
and Battle of the Bulge
Russell Islands
Russia
post-communist
see also Soviet Union
Russian Liberation Army
Russian navy
Russian Orthodox Church
Russo-Japanese War
Ruweisat Ridge
Ryder, General Charles
Ryukyu Islands
Rzhev
SA
Saarbrücken
Saarland
Sabotage-Fer
Sadamichi, Admiral Kajioka
Saigon
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de
st Lô
St Nazaire
St Petersburg–Petrograd
see also Leningrad
St Valery
St Vith
Saipan
Saito, General Yoshitsugo
Sakai, General Takashi
Sakhalin
Salamaua
Salerno
Salisbury Plain
Salmuth, General Hans von
Salo
Salonika
Salween, river
Samoa
Sampit
San Antonio
San Diego
San Stefano
&nbs
p; Sandakan
sangars
Sangro, river
Sano, General Tadayoshi
Santerno, river
Sarawak
Sardinia
Sark
Savo Island
Sbytov, Colonel
Scapa Flow
Schacht, Hjalmar
Schaulen
Scheldt, river
Schleicher,Kurt von
Schlieffen Plan
Schmidt, General Arthur
Schmidt, General Rudolf
Schmundt, General Rudolf
Schobert, General Eugen Ritter von
Schorner, Field Marshal Ferdinand
Schulenburg, Friedrich von
Schweppenburg, General Geyr Freiherr von
Schwerin, General Gerhard Graf von
Scotland
Scott, General Bruce
SD
Sea of Azov
Sedan
Seekt, General Hans von
Seelow Heights
Segamat, river
Seine, river
Selassie, Emperor Haile
Selby, Brigadier ‘Uncle Arthur’
Selective Service Act
Senegal
Senger und Etterlin, General Fridolin von
Senio, river
Serbia
Serchio, river
Sevastopol
Seven Years War
Seydlitz, General Friedrich Wilhelm von
Seydlitz, General Walther von
Seyffart, General
Sfax
Shakespeare, William
Shan Hills
Shanghai
Shantung
Shaposnikov, Marshal Boria
Shaw, George Bernard
Sheffield, Gary
Sheffield
ships, American
USS Augusta
USS Bismarck Sea
USS Enterprise
USS Greer
USS Honolulu
USS Hornet
USS Lexington
USS Midway
USS Missouri
USS New Jersey
USS New Mexico
USS Panay
USS Reuben James
USS St Lô
USS Saratoga
USS South Dakota
USS Washington
USS Wasp
USS Yorktown
ships, Australian HMAS Australia
ships, Austro-Hungarian SMS Szent Istvan
ships, British
HMS Ark Royal
HMS Barham
HMS Galatea
HMS Hermes
HMS Hood
HMS Illustrious
HMS Indomitable
HMS Neptune
HMS Prince of Wales
HMS Queen Elizabeth
HMS Ramillies
HMS Repulse
HMS Valiant
HMS Victorious
ships, civilian
Athenia
Goya
Ohio
ships, French
Jean Bart
ships, German
Admiral Graf Spee
Bismarck
Gneisenau
Prinz Eugen
Scharnhorst
Tirpitz
ships, Italian
Roma
ships, Japanese
Akagi
Hiei
Hiryu
Kaga
Kirishima
Musashi
Soryu
Yamato
Short, General Walter C.
Shortland
Showers, Lieutenant-Colonel Lionel
Shpagin sub-machine gun
Shum Shun (Shen Zen)
Shum Shun, river
Siam (Thailand)
Siberia
Sicily
Sidi Barrani
Sidi Bou Zid
Sidi Rezegh
Siegfried Line
Silesia
Sillaro, river
Simeto, river
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