INDEX

Page numbers in bold refer to illustrations.

aircraft 18–19, 20, 28, 29, 31, 35

Allies 6, 13, 15, 21, 28, 29, 30, 32, 37, 42, 43, 44

animal weapons 24–25

anti-Jewish policies 38, 38

anti-tank dogs 24–25

assassination 30–31

Axis powers 6, 7, 44

bat bombs 25, 25

Battle of the Atlantic 28

Battle of the Beams 19

Battle of Britain 18, 28

Beker, Bronia 41

Bletchley Park 27, 28, 31

bombing 7, 13, 18, 19, 21

bombs 19, 20, 22–23, 24, 25, 30–31

Britain 6, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28, 31, 35, 36–37, 41, 44

bunker, Hitler’s Berlin 42–43, 44

cameras 9, 11

censorship 35

Chapman, Eddie (Agent Zigzag) 10, 44

Churchill, Winston 7, 31, 37

code breaking 26, 27, 28, 29, 31

codes 26–27, 28, 29

code talkers 27

Colditz Castle 33

communists 14, 16

D-day 11, 15, 21, 28, 29, 44

death camps 39, 41

deceptions 29

diary of Anne Frank 41

double agents 8, 10–11

Double Cross 8

Einstein, Albert 22

Enigma 26–27, 26

escapes 32–33, 42, 43

execution 8, 9, 10, 13, 15, 16, 31, 41

Final Solution 39

France 6, 10, 12, 13, 14–15, 20, 21, 44

Frank, Anne 40–41, 44

French Resistance 13, 14–15, 44

Germany 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 43, 44

Gestapo 12, 13, 14, 15, 16–17, 40, 41, 44

ghettos 39, 44

Goebbels, Joseph 36, 42

hiding, people in 40–41

Himmler, Heinrich 16, 16

Hiroshima 23

Hitler, Adolf 6, 11, 21, 28, 30, 31, 32, 38, 42–43, 44

Holland 40

Holocaust 38–39, 40, 41

home front 34–35

imprisonment 9, 16, 17, 32–33

Italy 6, 17, 29

Jakobs, Josef 8, 44

Japan 6, 7, 9, 11, 17, 23, 25, 27, 32, 33, 37, 44

Jews 14, 36, 38–39, 40, 41, 44

Jones, R. V. 19

Joyce, William 37, 37

Kempeitai 17, 45

Kent, Tyler 9

Khan, Noor Inayat 13

Klein, Josef 10

Kolbe, Fritz 11

Lord Haw-Haw 37, 37

Los Baños POW camp 33

Lucy Spy Ring 10

Maquis 14, 15

Manhattan Project 22–23

MI5 8, 44

Mussolini, Benito 6, 17, 31

Nagasaki 23, 23

Naval Enigma 28–29

Nazis 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 31, 32, 35, 36, 38, 43, 45

nuclear bomb 22–23, 23

Office of Strategic Services (OSS) 11, 44

Operation Jedburgh 15, 44

Operation Sea Lion 28, 28

Operation Valkyrie 30–31, 44

Oppenheimer, Robert 22

OVRA 17, 45

Pearl Harbor 7, 25, 37, 44

Poland 6, 32, 41, 44

prisoner of war camps 17, 32–33, 32, 33, 44

prisoners of war 17, 32–33, 44

propaganda 36–37, 45

racism 6, 38

radar 18–19, 18, 19

radio 8, 12, 13, 18, 19, 27, 27, 36, 37

rat bombs 25

Renault, Gilbert 15

Roessler, Rudolf 10

Rohna 35, 44

sabotage 13, 14, 15

Sandbaek, Harald 16

Sansom, Odette 12, 44

secret police 12, 16–17

ships 18, 28, 29, 35, 44

Sorge, Richard 9, 44

Soviet Union 6, 7, 9, 10, 24–25, 30, 39, 42, 43, 44, 45

Special Operations Executive (SOE) 12, 13, 25, 44, 45

spies and spying 8–13, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 19, 26, 29, 35, 44

SS 16, 39, 45

Stalag Luft III 32, 44

Stauffenberg, Claus von 30–31, 30

submarines 18, 28, 29, 29

Switzerland 10, 11

Szabo, Violette 13, 44

torture 8, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17

U-boats See submarines

Ultra 28, 29

United States 6, 7, 9, 11, 14, 21, 22, 23, 25, 27, 32, 33, 37, 44

V-1 missile 11, 20, 20

V-2 missile 11, 20–21, 44

V-3 cannon 21

war crimes 43

weapons 7, 18–23, 31

Werra, Franz von 32

Wolf’s Lair 30, 44