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Werth, Alexander 178 , 221 , 222 , 273–4 , 275 , 276 , 304 , 398

White, Operation (German invasion of Poland, 1939) 56–7 , 59 , 60 , 63 , 65 , 68–9 , 71 , 72 , 73 , 74–83 , 85 , 134 , 167–8 , 214 , 381

Wilhelm II, Kaiser 5 , 7 , 11 n , 21

Wilson, Geoffrey 305–6 , 306 n

Wilson, Woodrow 5–6 , 7 , 34

Winant, John G. 159 , 218 , 436 , 443

Winter War (1939–40) 83–6 , 87 , 90 , 93 , 106 , 109 , 114 , 187 , 290 , 353 n , 410 , 435 , 485

Wolfsschanze (Wolf ’s Lair), Eastern Prussia 204 , 208 , 208 n , 212 , 214 , 251 , 253 , 255 , 258–9 , 276 , 308 , 348 , 349 , 360 , 366 , 476 , 479 , 484 , 489

Yalta Conference (1945) 507–8

Yasnaya Polyana, Soviet Union 425–6 , 448–9

Yelnya, Soviet Union 235 , 271–6 , 278 , 317

Yeremenko, General Andrei 175 , 236 , 278 , 287 , 311 , 315 , 316 , 316 n , 319

Yugoslavia xlvi , 98 , 109 , 110 , 111–12 , 113 , 119 , 122 , 359

Zhukov, General Georgy xliii , xliv , 278 ; Barbarossa launch/Soviet forces preparedness for and 104 , 105 , 106 , 123 , 124 , 128 , 129–30 , 138 , 139–40 , 144 , 145 , 176 ; chief of staff of Red Army, replaces Meretskov as 104 ; counter-attack against German forces outside Moscow 434 , 446 , 454 , 455 , 456 , 457 , 460 , 496 , 498 , 499 ; Dedovsk, Stalin’s mistaken belief that German forces had taken and 423–5 ; deserters/surrender/retreats, approach towards 290–91 , 311 , 320 , 352 , 354 , 412 , 416–17 ; German surrender (1945), accepts 457 n ; Khalkhin Gol, battles of and 390 ; Kiev, suggests to Stalin that he allows to fall 234–5 , 271 ; Klin fall and 423 ; Kursk battle and 499 ; Lend Lease programme and 184–5 , 505 ; Leningrad defence and 290–91 , 292 , 320 ; Military Council of the Western Front rallying call to soldiers and 356–7 ; military equipment demands made to British 184–5 ; Moscow, role in defence of xliv , 320–21 , 326 , 333 , 352 , 354–6 , 405–6 , 408 , 409–12 , 416–17 , 423–5 , 429–30 , 431 ; Order No. 0064 290–91 ; Rokossovsky, denies request for tactical retreat from 416–17 ; 16th Army counter-attack against Hoepner’s 4th Panzer Group, orders 409–12 ; Soviet press celebrate 462 ; Stalin fires 235 , 271 ; Stalingrad battle and 498 ; Tula gateway and 405–6 , 429–30 ; Western Army Group, takes charge of 409 ; Yelnya bridgehead and 271 , 272

Zieser, Benno 201–2 , 243

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1. Paving the Way

2. Dictators and Democrats

3. Shuttle Diplomacy

4. Self-Delusion and Bad Faith

5. A Pact with Satan

6. Thieves Fall Out

7. Stalin Ignores the Warnings

8. The Blitzkrieg

9. Hatreds and Horrors

10. Watching On

11. Stalin’s Rallying Cry

12. A Shaky Alliance

13. Hideous Realities

14. America Makes a Move

15. Disarray on the Soviet Front

16. Hitler’s Hiatus

18. The Carnage of Kiev

19. Leningrad

20. Wars of Words

21. Operation Typhoon

22. The Great Panic

23. General Mud

24. The Jewish Question

25. Allied Preoccupations

26. Mood Changes

27. The Final Assault

28. The Fateful Terminus

29. A Global War

30. The Retreat

31. Eden Meets Stalin

32. The Fatal Gamble

Epilogue