284 INDEX
Patton, General George S.
164, 191, 195, 200, 229,
232 , 233
Paulus, General Friedrich 131,
152, 153
Pavlograd 153
Pavlov, Sergeant Yakov 150
Pearl Harbor 68, 70, 104, 105,
109, 110–111, 113, 116,
221, 274
Peenemünde 193
People’s Liberation Army
(PLA) 266–267
Percival, Lieutenant-General
Arthur 118, 119
Pescara 167
Pétain, Marshal Philippe 54,
55
Phibusongkhram, Field Marshal
Luang 107, 113
Philippine Sea, Battle of the
205, 212–213
Philippines 109, 205, 212–215
civilian casualties 273
Japan invades 112, 113,
116–117
retaking of 246, 247, 248–249
phony war 36, 40–41
Pico 167
pilots, kamikaze 216
Ping Jin campaign 266, 267
Piraeus 203
Pisa 167
plebiscites 14
Ploeşti 235
Po, river 241
Poland
in British 8th Army 77, 161
casualties 272, 273
death camps 134, 135
German invasion/occupation
12, 13, 32, 33, 36, 38–39,
51, 133
inter-war 14, 15, 18, 19, 39
paratroopers 198, 199
partition of 38–39, 88
post-war 230, 263, 265
resistance movement 176,
184
Soviet advance into 182,
238–239
Soviet invasion 38–39
troops in Italy 166, 241
Warsaw Ghetto 136–137
Warsaw Uprising 176, 184–185
Polotsk 183
Pontine Marshes 166
pontoon bridges 233
Popular Front (Republicans)
(Spain) 24–25
Port Lyautey 146
Port Moresby 124, 125Portugal, Salazar era 19
post-war world 262–263
Potsdam 242
Potsdam Conference 230 , 247,
256, 265
Potsdam Declaration 230 , 247,
260
POW camps 104, 154–155
Primo de Rivera, Miguel 19
HMS Prince of Wales 66, 67,
113
Prinz Eugen 66, 67
prisoners-of-war (POWs)
154–155
Allied German 233
German 92
Japanese treatment of 104,
116, 119, 204, 223, 273
treatment of Soviet 130, 273
Prokhorovka, Battle of 178
propaganda
Allied 41
Cold War 265
German 20, 31, 52, 56, 130,
132, 233
Italian 79
Japanese 216, 223, 246
resistance groups 139, 177
Soviet 101, 162, 180
Spanish 12
US 114, 204
Prut, river 183
Pyatigorsk 149Q
Quisling, Vidkun 47, 132
Quit India movement 123R
Rabaul 123, 124, 125, 205, 206,
207
racial segregation 114
Ramsay, Admiral Bertram 53,
186
Rangoon 113, 120, 218, 219
Rashid Ali al-Gaylani 82, 83,
122
Rath, Ernst vom 31
rationing 62, 92, 114
Rattenkrieg 150
Ravenna 240, 241
rearmament
allied 28, 36
German 13, 28
US 68
Red Army 88, 89, 101, 146, 149,
150–153, 181, 182–183, 242–243,
272Red Ball Express 195
Red Cross 154
refugees 159, 185, 226, 230,
238, 262
Jewish 270, 271
Regensburg 173
Reichswerke 133
Reims 244
Remagen 232
remembrance 274–275
Remer, Major Otto 197
Replacement Army, German
197
HMS Repulse 113
resistance movements 54, 138,
139, 176–177, 195
brutal repression of 133
see also partisans
reverse Lend-Lease 71
Rhine, river 172, 194, 199, 200,
201, 226, 227
Allies cross 232–233
Rhineland 28
Rhodesia 161
Rhône Valley 195
Ribbentrop, Joachim von 33, 38
River Plate, Battle of the 42–3
Rjuku Archipelago 254
Rochefort, Joseph 127
rockets
Soviet 182
see also V-weapons
Roer, river 200, 201, 232, 233
Rokossovsky, General
Konstantin 181 , 242
Roma 135, 272
Romania
declares war on Germany 183
dictatorship 19
legacy of World War I 15
oil refineries 235
and Soviet Union 180, 182,
183, 238, 263
Tripartite Pact 80
troops from 88, 91, 152
Rome
Germans seize 164
liberation of 166 , 167
Rome–Berlin Axis 32
Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin 72, 77 ,
130, 131, 146–147, 170, 188
enters Desert War 76–77
final advance 142–143
Second Battle of El Alamein
144–145
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
death of 226, 227, 244, 246
Lend-Lease 70, 71
and North Africa 146
Pearl Harbor 110, 111
summit conferences 162–163,
206, 260–261, 265and US entry of war 68, 104–105,
114
and War in the Pacific 206
Rosenberg, Alfred 133
Rostov 97, 149, 153
Rotterdam 49
Royal Air Force (RAF)
Battle of Britain 58–59
the Blitz 61
Strategic Bombing Offensive
172–173, 234–235
Royal Canadian Navy 64
Royal Navy
Battle of the River Plate
42–43
Mediterranean 56, 57, 72, 77,
83, 84–85
naval base in Singapore
118
sinking of the Bismarck 66–67
War in the Pacific 113
HMS Royal Oak 42, 64, 65
Royan 194
Rozisch-Blackburn-Thompkins
bridge 233
Ruhr, Battle of the 173, 233
Ruhr Valley 194, 195, 199, 200,
201
Rundstedt, Field Marshal
Gerd von 97, 188, 191
Russell, Bertrand 263
Russell Islands 207
Russia
end of Empire 15
legacy of World War I 14,
15
see also Soviet Union
Russian Revolution 15
Rutherford, Ernest 256
Rzhev 100S
Saarland 14, 28, 41, 195,
200
sabotage 138–139
Safi 146
Saidor 206
Saigon 222–223
St. Matthias Group 20–26,
207
St. Nazaire 139
St. Vith 228
Saipan 106, 205, 212, 213
Salazar, Antonio de 19
Salerno 165
Salò, Republic of 240, 241
Salonika 80
Samar, Battle of 215
San Stefano Line 164
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