Джонатан Димблби - Barbarossa - How Hitler Lost the War [calibre]

British Army 87–8 , 109–13 , 111 n , 112–13 n , 115 , 119 , 120 , 158–9 , 162 , 162 n , 177 , 184–5 , 189–90 , 297–8 , 301 , 359 , 377 , 378 , 379 , 380–81 , 440–42 , 444 , 460 , 469 , 471 , 491–2 , 502 , 503 , 503 n , 504 , 506–7

British Communist Party 114 , 189

British Expeditionary Force (BEF) 87–8 , 111 , 112

Brooke, Field Marshal Alan 441 , 442 , 444 , 471 , 507

Browning, Christopher 366 , 375

Bryansk, Soviet Union 195 , 236 , 278 , 286 , 287 , 289 , 293 , 310 , 311–19 , 320 , 326 , 346 , 352 , 356 , 496 , 499

Buchenwald concentration camp, Germany 51

Budyonny, Marshal Semyon 144 , 279 , 279 n , 280 , 281 , 311 , 319–20 , 321

Bukovina 91 , 92 , 96

Bulganin, Nikolai 409–10 , 411 n

Bulgaria 91 n , 92 , 95 , 96 , 109 , 111 , 124 , 158 , 508

Bullitt, William 34 , 37 , 37 n , 38

Butler, Rab 87 , 115 , 118 , 118 n

Cadogan, Alexander 59 , 61 , 62 , 63 , 66 , 69 , 84 , 85 , 86–7 , 114 , 115 , 117–18 , 118 n , 124–5 , 160 , 161 , 379 , 384 , 443 , 444 , 463 , 466 , 468 , 469 , 471

Case Blue (Wehrmacht summer offensive in southern Russia, 1942) 496–7

Cassidy, Henry 221 , 335–6

Chamberlain, Austen 16 , 17 , 18

Chamberlain, Neville 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 53–4 , 54 n , 56 , 59–60 , 61–2 , 63 , 64–5 , 66 , 67 , 69 , 72 , 75 , 84 , 85 , 88 , 114 , 128

Cheka (The Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage) 39 , 39 n , 40

Chełmno, Poland 371–2 , 373 , 375 , 502

Chicherin, Georgy 3 , 9–10 , 17 , 57

Churchill, Clementine 296 , 383

Churchill, Sir Winston: ABC-1 agreement and 437 ; Anglo-Soviet ‘Agreement for Joint Action’ and 185–6 , 188 ; anti-Bolshevik sentiment 8 , 9 , 159 , 188–90 , 189 n , 380–82 ; Arcadia Conference and 490–91 ; Atlantic battle and 75 , 494–5 ; Atlantic Conference/Atlantic Charter and 218 , 227–30 , 254 , 296 ; Barbarossa, forsees 118–20 , 126 ; Barbarossa launch and xlvii , 158–61 , 184 ; Battleaxe Operation and 158 ; Beaverbrook and 295 , 296 , 297 n , 304 ; Beaverbrook-Harriman mission to Moscow and 295 , 299 , 300 , 301 , 302 , 304 , 330 ; British Empire, obsession with sustaining 54–5 , 114 , 162 , 216–17 , 383 ; Combined Chiefs of Staff and 469 , 491 ; Cripps and 115 , 116–17 , 118–20 , 159 , 185 , 226 , 232 , 299 , 335 , 380 , 381–4 , 442 ; Crusader Operation and 377–8 , 440 , 441 ; Dunkirk and 177 ; Eden’s visit to Moscow (1941) and 438–9 , 440 , 441–2 , 443–4 , 445 , 464 , 465 , 467 , 468 , 469–70 , 506 ; First Lord of the Admiralty 87 , 88 ; ‘Europe First’/‘Germany First’ strategy and 437 , 490–91 ; Greece and Yugoslavia, decision to come to aid of 110 , 111 , 111 n , 113 , 158 ; Hess peace deal and 124–5 ; Hitler, pre-war warnings over rise of 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 ; Holocaust and 376 , 376 n ; Hopkins and 216 , 218 , 219 , 227–8 , 230 , 232 ; Middle East theatre and 110 , 158–9 , 161 , 162 , 188 , 216 , 217 , 377 , 378 , 383 , 437 , 440 , 469 , 494 , 504 ; Molotov–Hitler conference, British air raid on Berlin during and 97 n ; Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and 75 ; Montgomery and 503 n ; Moscow Conference, first (1942) 493 ; Moscow Conference, second (1944) 507 ; Munich Agreement and 53 , 54 ; North African second front and 490–93 , 503 , 504 ; Pearl Harbor attack and 436 , 437 , 445 ; prime minister, becomes 88 ; Roosevelt and 111 , 216–17 , 216 n , 218 , 227–30 , 232 , 298 , 388 , 389 , 436 , 437–8 , 439 , 443 , 444 , 465 , 467 , 469–70 , 490–93 , 504 ; second front, Stalin lobbies for opening of 189–90 , 296–9 , 378 , 379 , 381–5 , 438 , 439–40 , 493–4 ; Soviet Union, argues for reconciliation with 45 , 46 , 61 , 62 , 87 ; Soviet Union, British military aid to and 162–3 , 184–5 , 187 , 188–90 , 297–8 , 301 , 379 , 380–82 , 440–42 , 494–5 ; Soviet Union, focus as incoming PM on restoration of relations with 114–20 , 121 , 122 , 158–61 , 162–3 , 184–5 ; Stalin and 116–17 , 118–22 , 162 , 177 , 184 , 185 , 186 , 187 , 188–90 , 226 , 232–3 , 296–9 , 302 , 378 , 379 , 380 , 381–5 , 386 , 394–5 , 438 , 439–40 , 493–4 , 503 n , 505 , 506–7 ; Stalin warned of German invasion plans by 118–20 ; Teheran Conference (1943) and 233–4 , 506–7 ; US, visits (1941) 437–8 , 443 , 444 , 445 , 469–70 ; Winter War and 87

Clemenceau, Georges 7–8 , 13

Collier, Laurence 32 , 59

Colville, John (‘Jock’) 159 , 227

Comintern (Communist International) 12 n , 58 , 62 , 263

Commissar Order (6th June, 1941), Hitler’s 107 n , 167 , 169 , 170

Communist Party: British 114 , 189 ; German 11 , 21 , 24 ; Soviet 40 , 103 , 105 , 122 , 177 n , 214 , 290 , 328 , 329 , 330 , 393

Cooper, Duff 47 , 53 , 189

Crete 112–13 n , 120 , 158 , 297

Crimea 96 , 207 , 210 , 250 , 256 , 281 , 410 , 455 , 497 , 499 ; Crimean War (1853–6) 96 , 210

Cripps, Sir Stafford: Anglo-Soviet ‘Agreement for Joint Action’, signs 185–6 ; British warnings of Barbarossa/imminent German invasion given to Soviet government and 119–20 , 121 ; Churchill and 115 , 116–17 , 118–20 , 159 , 185 , 226 , 232 , 299 , 335 , 380 , 381–4 , 442 ; Eden’s visit to Moscow (1941) and 443 , 463–4 , 465 , 466–7 , 468 , 469 ; evacuation to Kuybyshev 335 , 336 , 379 , 442 , 463 ; Harriman-Beaverbrook mission and 301–2 , 304–7 ; Hopkins and 220 , 224–5 , 226 , 232 , 301 ; Mason-MacFarlane and 184–6 ; Moscow bombing and 221–2 ; Moscow, first posted to 114–18 , 117 n , 119–20 , 121 ; post-war life 442 , 443 ; Red Army, opinion of 159 , 184 ; second front request from Stalin and 298 , 380 , 381–3 ; Soviet requests for military aid and 184 , 185 , 226 , 232 , 298–9 , 305 , 306 , 379–80 , 381–3 , 439 , 442 ; tripartite conference between Britain, United States and Soviet Union, advocates 225 , 232

Crusader, Operation (1941) 377–8 , 440 , 441

Curzon Line 464 , 506

Czechoslovakia 7 , 48–9 , 55 , 56 , 134 , 508

Dachau concentration camp, Germany 51 , 206 n , 374 n

Davies, Joseph E. 38 , 41 , 187 , 219–20 , 220 n , 418

Dedovo, Bulgaria 424 , 425

Dedovsk, Soviet Union 423–5

Dekanozov, Vladimir 100 , 142–3 , 145

Dill, Sir John 110–11 , 158 , 159 , 162 , 379 , 380 , 440 , 440–41 n

Donbass, Soviet Union 256 , 256 n , 328 n

Dubno, battle of (1941) 182–3

Dunkirk evacuation (1940) 87 , 112 , 115 , 119 , 177

Duranty, Walter 30 , 31 , 32 , 35 , 36 , 37

Eberbach, Colonel Heinrich 319 , 431 , 449

Eden, Anthony 162 , 229 , 298 , 380 , 410 n ; Barbarossa launch and 159 , 160 ; Chamberlain and 45–6 ; Churchill and 297 , 379 , 382 , 383 ; Dill and 120 ; Hess and 124 ; Stalin, meeting with in Moscow (1941) 384–5 , 438–9 , 440 , 441 , 442–4 , 445 , 446 , 463–72 , 506 , 507 , 508 ; Stalin’s request for second front and 296

Egypt 158 , 216 , 377 , 378 , 440 , 504 , 504 n

Ehrenburg, Ilya 397 , 458–9 , 460

Einsatzgruppen (task forces or ‘action squads’) xlv , 47 , 78–9 , 80 , 263–70 , 281–4 , 362–3 , 367 , 368 , 369–75 , 501 ; Einsatzgruppe A 266 , 362–3 ; Einsatzgruppe B 264 , 270 , 363 , 368 , 369 ; Einsatzgruppe C 268–9 , 281–4 ; Final Solution and 369–75 ; gas vans 369–71 , 372 , 373 , 375

Eisenhower, General Dwight D. 490 n , 503

El Alamein, battle of (1942) 460 , 503 , 503 n

Enabling Act, German (1933) 24 , 25

Enigma signals 119 , 125 , 126 , 376

Erastova, Nurse 223 , 317–18

Estonia 62 , 73 , 182