Routledge Atlas of the Second World War by Gilbert Martin

Author:Gilbert, Martin
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781135107888
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Index

compiled by the author

Aachen: bombed, 128, 142, 160; surrenders, 153

Aarhus: and an air attack, 209

Abbeville: 160

Abdul Kalam, A.P.J.: quoted, 226

Abyssinia (Ethiopia): 16, 116, 206, 213, 222; war dead, 257

Acasta (destroyer): 131

‘Ace of the Deep’: 91

Adam, Ken: 210

Adenauer, Konrad: 240

Admiral Graf Spee: 5

Admiral Hipper: 83

Admiral Scheer: 28, 83

Adriatica (Displaced Persons’ (DP) camp): 238

Afric Star (merchant ship): sunk, 30

African-American soldiers: in action, 168, 211

Agent Zigzag: 117

Akashi: bombed, 193

Alamein: 80, 109, 213, 226

Alaska-Canada (Alcan) Highway: 82

Albania: 16, 33, 162, 209, 229, 230; war dead, 256

Albanian volunteers with the SS: 73

Alderney Island: 224

Aleutian Islands: 56, 63, 82

Algeria: 80

Ali Khan, Lieutenant: 228

Allen, Alma: 218

Allied Control Zones (Germany and Austria): 235

Alomogordo: 232

Alsace: 152, 213, 211, 236

Altenfjord: 83, 169

Ambon: war cemetery and memorial, 244

Amerika (Hitler’s train): 219

Anchorage, Alaska: 82

Andaman Islands: 57, 200, 201

Anders, General: 38, 214

Angaur: 185

Ano-Archanes: 209

anti-aircraft defences: 167

Antwerp: 123, 143, 163, 165, 166; and the Ardennes, 168; liberated, 216

Anzio: 122, 126; United States war cemetery at, 248

Api (Sabah): anti-Japanese resistance in, 192

Arabs: 42

Arcadia (Florida): 251, 252, 253

Archangel: 46, 83

Arctic convoys: 46, 83, 169

Arctic Ocean: 46, 75, 169

Ardennes: 168, 170, 171, 212

Ardent (destroyer): 131

‘area bombing’: 76

Argentia Bay: 221

Argentina: 225, 236, 239

Arhanes: 35

Arisan Maru (Japanese ‘Hellship’): 189

Arizona (battleship): sunk, 55

Armed Forces of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (VS-KONR): 176

Armenians: 230

Arnhem: 163, 207, 210, 214

Arromanches: 150, 151, 222

Ascension Island: 121

Aschaffenburg: bombed, 167

‘Asia Women’s Fund’: to make reparations, 200

Assam: 192, 218, 244

Athens: 33, 34, 98, 107, 109; Churchill in, 220; liberated, 162

Atlantic Charter: 220, 221

Atlantic Ferry Organisation (ATFERO): 29

Atlantic Ocean: 51, 52, 70, 74, 119, 120

atom bomb: 134, 198, 222; dropped, 201, 202

atrocities against civilians: 35, 40, 57, 59, 61, 79, 98, 100, 101, 102, 103, 105, 106, 112, 156, 173, 192, 229, 233

Attlee, Clement: and Dresden, 175

Attu Island: 82

Aung San, General: leads resistance, 192

Auschwitz: 88, 90, 91, 101, 103, 109; deportations to, 107, 158; revolt in, 108, 218; escapees from, and a bombing request, 158; evacuated, 173; Gypsies killed at, 233

Auschwitz Camp Trials: 241

Australia: airmen from, 23, 25, 128, 130, 138, 161; troops from, 33, 35, 37, 57, 80; and Japan, 54, 56, 67, 69; and the World War, 66; and British landing craft, 134; and the Kokoda Trail, 69; and the Sandakan Death March, 191; German expellees reach, 236; takes in Displaced Persons (DPs), 239; soldiers, sailors and airmen of, war graves and memorials to, 244; war dead, 255

Australia (heavy cruiser): hit, 195

Austria: annexed, 1; and the Einsatzgruppen killing squads, 100; fate of Jews of, 229, 230; the fate of the Gypsies of, 233; post-war borders and divisions of, 235, 237; Displaced Person’s Camps in, 237; takes in Displaced Persons (DPs), 239; a beneficiary of the Marshall Plan, 243;

‘Aycliffe Angels’: 27

Ayrshire (destroyer): 83

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