278 INDEX
Page numbers in bold indicate main
treatments of a topicA
Aachen, Battle of 201
Abbeville 49
Abd al-liah 82
Abyssinia see Ethiopia
HMS Achilles 43
Addis Ababa 75
Admiralty Islands 207
Africa
power struggles in 56–57
see also East Africa; North Africa
African Americans 114, 195
Afrika Korps 72, 76–77, 144–145,
160
aircraft carriers 67 , 212–213
aircraft manufacture 114–115, 133,
173, 174–175
HMS Ajax 43
Alam Halfa, Battle of 143, 145
Alaska 140
Albania 72, 78, 79, 263
Italian invasion of 28, 79, 80, 81
Aleutian Islands 127
Alexander, General Harold 164,
165
Alexandria 72, 85, 130
Algeria 57
Operation Torch 146–147, 161
Algiers 147
Alps 233
Alsace-Lorraine 195, 200
Altmark Incident 47
Amadeo, Prince 75
Amboina 112
amphibious warfare 166, 186–187,
205, 208–209, 250
Ancona 167
Anglo-Iraqi Treaty (1930) 82
Anschluss 13, 18, 28, 29
Anti-Comintern Pact (1936) 32
anti-Semitism 134–135
Antwerp 194, 195, 200, 201, 228,
229
Anzio 166, 167
Apennine Mountains 240
appeasement 13, 28, 32
Arabs, Palestinian 271
Arab–Israeli War, first 271
Archangel 140, 141
Arctic convoys 140–141INDEX
Ardennes 49, 226, 228, 229, 232
Area Bombing Directive 173,
234
HMS Ark Royal 66, 67
armament production 62, 92–93,
114, 158, 174
arms race, nuclear 262–263
Arnhem, Battle of 199
Arnim, General Hans-Juergen
von 160
Arno, river 167, 240
Aryanism 133
Asia, decolonization of 268–269
Asmara 75
Assam 218, 221
Athens 81, 203
Atlantic
Battle of the River Plate 42–43
Battle of the 64–67, 130, 158,
168–169
see also convoys; U-boats
Atlantic Charter 68, 268
atomic bomb 246, 247, 256–259, 260,
263
Attlee, Clement 230
Auchinleck, General Claude 77,
143
Aung San 121
Auschwitz-Birkenau 131, 135,
136, 226, 238
Australia
forces from 74, 76, 77, 118, 119,
129, 161, 206, 207, 214,
215, 273
Japanese assaults on 124, 125
Austria 233
Anschluss 13, 18, 28, 29
legacy of World War I 14, 15
Austro-Hungarian Empire 15,
19, 29
Avranches 191
Axis Powers 32
Azov, Sea of 180B
B-17 bombers 234
B-24 Liberators 169, 235
B-29 Superfortress 252, 253
Ba Maw 223
Babi Yar ravine 98
Badoglio, Marshal Pietro 132,
164
Baedeker Raids 173Balfour Declaration 271
Bali 112
Balkans
Axis campaign in 80–81, 203–204
liberation of 202
resistance movements 176,
177
Baltic Sea 182, 183
Baltic States 18, 133, 238
massacre of Jews 98
Soviet absorption of 44
Bardia 74
Barents Sea, Battle of the 141
Barnett, Correlli 186
Bastogne 226, 228, 229
Bataan Death March 116
Bataan Peninsula 116, 117, 249
Batumi 148, 149
Becquerel, Henri 256
Beda Fomm, Battle of 74
Beijing 23, 266
Belfort Gap 195, 201
Belgian Congo 57
Belgium
African colonies 56–57
Ardennes offensive 226
Battle of the Bulge 228–229
German invasion 36, 41, 49,
51, 53
inter-war 14
liberation of 194, 195, 200
Belgorod 153
Belgrade 80, 202, 203, 238
Belorussia 98, 159, 182–183, 238,
242
Benghazi 142
Berbera 75
Bergen-Belsen 134, 135, 227,
232, 233
Bering Strait 140
Berlin
Allied advance on 232, 238–239
Allied bombing of 173
blockade and airlift 262, 264,
265
fall of 242–243
Holocaust memorial 274–275
Soviets arrive in 226
Speer’s redevelopment plans
174
surrender ceremony in 244
Bessarabia 33, 91
Beveland Peninsula 200
“Big Week” raids 173
biological weapons 221Bir Hakeim 143
Bismarck, sinking of the 66–67
Bismarck Sea, Battle of the 206,
207
Bizerta 160
Black Sea 149
Bletchley Park 170–171
the Blitz 37, 59, 60–61, 63, 172,
273
Blitzkrieg 36, 39, 50–51, 72, 228
Bockscar 259
Bohr, Niels 256
Bologna 241
bombing campaigns
against Japanese mainland 205,
252–253, 272, 273
Allied in Germany 158, 159,
172–173, 226, 234–235, 272,
273
the Blitz 37, 59, 60–61, 63,
273
Dresden 236–237
of Stalingrad 150, 151
V-weapons 192–193
Bor-Komorowski, General
Tadeusz 184
Bordeaux 139
Bormann, Martin 196
Borneo 112, 214
Bose, Chandra 123
Bottai, Giuseppe 133
Bougainville 125, 206, 207
Boulogne 186, 194
bouncing bombs 173
Bradley, Lieutenant-General
Omar N. 188
Bremen 233
Breskens Pocket 200
Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of 15
Britain
African colonies 56–57
Allied advance on Germany
200, 201, 243
Arctic convoys 140, 141
Atlantic supply chain 42–43,
64–65
Battle of Britain 37, 58–59, 62,
274
Battle for Normandy 191
the Blitz 60–61, 273
bombing of Germany 172–173,
234–235
casualties 119, 187, 273
civilian casualties 61, 173,
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