Read The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 Online
Authors: Rick Atkinson
Tags: #Non-Fiction, #War, #History
LCTs (landing craft, tank)
leafleting
League of German Maidens
Lebensraum
plan
Leclerc, Maj. Gen. Jacques Philippe
Lee, Lt. Gen. John C. H. “Court House”
Lee, Robert E.
Lee’s Lieutenants
(Freeman)
Le Hamel
Le Havre
Leigh-Mallory, Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford
Leipzig
bombing of
Red Army and Western Allies meet near
Le Mans
Lenin, V. I.
Leningrad
Leonard, Maj. Gen. John W.
Leuna synthetic-oil plant
Lewin, Ronald
Lewin, Lt. Wells
Lewis, Norman
Lewis, Sinclair
Lewis, Ted
Liberty ships
Libya
Liebling, A. J.
Liège
Life
Lifeboat
(film)
Life of the Bee, The
(Maeterlinck)
“light line”
Lippe River
Lippstadt
Littlejohn, Maj. Gen Robert
Lodge, Henry Cabot
logistics
advance to Germany and
Antwerp and
Bastogne and
DRAGOON
and
French and
HERBSTNEBEL
plan and
German problems with
liberation of Paris and
OVERLORD
ports and
post-Bulge
requirements by fall 1944
Rhine crossing and
Ruhr and
Soviets and
U.S. contributions to war and
winter campaign and
Loire River
London
Eisenhower honored in
Eisenhower meets Churchill in
privations of
V-1 and V-2 attacks on
V-E Day and
war damage in
London
Daily Express
London
Daily Mail
London
Daily Telegraph
London
Sunday Times
London
Times
looting
Lorient, siege of
Lorraine campaign
Losheim Gap
Louis IV, King of France
Louis IX, St., King of France
Louis XIV, King of France
Louis XVI, King of France
Louis the Pious, King of the Franks
Lovat, Lord
Love’s Tables
Lovett, Robert A.
Low Countries.
See
Belgium; Netherlands
LST-353
LST 487/516
LST-906
LSTs (landing ship, tank)
DRAGOON
and
OVERLORD
and
Lübeck
Lucht, Gen. Walter
Luck, Lt. Col. Hans von
Ludendorff, Gen. Erich
Ludendorff Bridge (Remagen)
Ludwigshafen
Lüneberg
British war crimes trials
German surrender at
Lunéville
Lüttwitz, Lt. Gen. Heinrich von
Luxembourg
Bulge and
Luxembourg City
Lyon
M-47 phosphorus bomb (earthquake bomb)
M-76 Block Burner
Maas River.
See also
Meuse River
Maastricht
Eisenhower vs. Montgomery showdown at
Maas-Waal Canal
MacArthur, Douglas
MacDonald, Charles B.
Maddalena, Frank
Maddalena, Natalie
MADISON
, Operation
Maeterlinck, Maurice
Magdeburg
Maginot Line
Mainz
Maison Rouge
Majdanek concentration camp
Malden
Malmédy
massacre (Baugnez)
Malta Conference
Maltese Falcon, The
(Hammett)
Manchuria
Manderfeld
Manhattan Project
Mann, Joe E.
Mannheim
bombing of
Rhine crossing at
manpower shortages
Manstein, Field Marshal Erich
Manteuffel, Gen. Hasso von
Manual of Therapy
maquis
Marburg
Marcks, Gen. Erich
Marcus Aurelius
Mareth, Battle of
Margival (Hitler’s HQ)
Margraten cemetery
Mariana Islands
Marie Antoinette, Queen of France
MARKET GARDEN
, Operation
Marlborough
(Churchill)
Marseille
Marshall, Gen. George C.
bombing of Berlin and
Bradley and
Brereton and
Bulge and
COBRA
and
concentration camps and
Czechoslovakia and
De Gaulle and
De Lattre and
Devers and
DRAGOON
and
Eisenhower and
Eisenhower vs. Montgomery and
final days of war and
liberation of Paris and
logistics and
Malta and
manpower needs and
MARKET GARDEN
and
Middleton and
OVERLORD
and
Patch and
Patton and
postwar Europe and
Red Army and
Ruhr Pocket POWs
Ted Roosevelt and
on WW II
Yalta and
Marshall Islands
Masefield, John
Mauldin, Bill
May, Karl
McAuliffe, Brig, Gen. Anthony Clement
McCloughry, Air Vice Marshal E. J. Kingston
McCloy, John J.
McCown, Maj. Hal D.
McLain, Maj. Gen. Raymond S.
McNair, Lt. Gen. Lesley J.
Me-262 (German jet)
Mead, Margaret
medical problems
frostbite
trench foot
typhus
venereal disease
Mediterranean campaigns.
See also specific campaigns
Meet the Americans
(manual)
Megargee, Geoffrey P.
Meindl, Gen. Eugen
Mein Kampf
(Hitler)
Melmer, Bruno
Men at War
(Hemingway)
Merderet River
Merkers treasure
Merriman, Henry Seton
Messina
Metz
Battle of
Meuse-Escaut Canal
Meuse River.
See also
Maas River
Bulge and
GREIF
and
HERBSTNEBEL
and
Meyer, Col. Kurt
Middleton, Drew
Middleton, Maj. Gen. Troy
Bulge and
Rhine crossing and
Milburn, Maj. Gen. Frank W.
Miller, Maj. Glenn
Miller, Lee
Millett, Allan R.
Millikin, Maj. Gen. John
Millin, Sgt. Bill
mines
Mission No. 17.
See
Yalta Conference
Model, Field Marshal Walter
Allied Rhine crossing and
Bulge and
Ruhr and
suicide of
Molotov, Vyacheslav
Monet, Claude
Monsabert, Gen. Joseph de Goislard de
Monschau
Mons Pocket
Montélimar, Battle of
Montgomery, Gen. Bernard L. “Monty”
Antwerp and
assessment of
BODENPLATTE
and
Bradley and
Brittany and
Bulge and
Churchill and
COBRA
and
D-Day and
De Gaulle and
Eisenhower and
Eisenhower assumes command of ground assault and
Eisenhower shifts attack to Bradley from
Eisenhower vs., and Bulge
Eisenhower vs., and Churchill
Eisenhower vs., and
MARKET GARDEN
Eisenhower vs., and showdown at Maastricht
Eisenhower vs., and single- vs. multipronged strategy
Eisenhower vs., and war’s end date
Elbe crossing and
Falaise and
German surrender and
GOODWOOD
and
Horrocks and
January 1945 position of
Malta and
MARKET GARDEN
and
Mortain and
Normandy and
North Africa and
OVERLORD
and
Patton and
personality of
promoted to field marshal
Rhine crossing and
Ruhr and
SHAEF tensions and
Siegfried Line and
VARSITY PLUNDER
and
VERITABLE
and
GRENADE
and
victory position of
Yalta and
Montjoie (Hill 314)
Mont-St.-Michel
Mook
Moon, Rear Adm. Don P.
Moore, Henry
Moorehead, Alan
Moran, Charles
Morgan, Lt. Gen. Frederick E.
Morgenthau, Henry, Jr.
Morocco
Mortain, Battle of
Moselle River
Mosel River
MOVCO
Muirhead, John
Mulberry A (synthetic harbor)
Mulberry B (Port Winston, synthetic harbor)
Mulhouse
Munich
Munich Conference
munition supplies
Münster
Murphy, Lt. Audie Leon
Murphy, Robert
Murray, Williamson
Murrow, Edward R.
Mussolini, Benito
mustard gas
Namur
Nancy
napalm
Naples
Churchill at
Napoléon Bonaparte
National Redoubt
National Velvet
(film)
Natzweiler concentration camp
Nazi Party
Neder Rijn (Lower Rhine)
Neffe
Nelson, Adm. Horatio
Netherlands
liberation of
MARKET GARDEN
and
V-2 rockets and
Neuf-Brisach
Neufchâteau
Nevada
, U.S.S.
New Yorker
New York Herald Tribune
New York
Sun
New York Times
Ney, Marshal Michel
Nicholas II, Czar of Russia
Nijmegen
MARKET GARDEN
and
Niven, David
Nordhausen concentration camp
Nordling, Raoul
NORDWIND
, Operation
Normandy.
See
OVERLORD
;
and specific battles and locations
gains and losses at end of
July advance and fears of stalemate
June advance
map of assault on
terrain and bocage
North African campaign.
See also specific battles and countries
Norway
“Notes on Command in Western Europe” (Montgomery memorandum)
Noville, Battle of
NOVOCAINE
(commando team)
Nuremberg
war-crimes tribunals
Nutting, Conrad J., III
Nutting, Katherine
O, Task Force
Oberkassel crossing
Obersalzberg
O’Brien, Capt. Thomas F.
Obstfelder, Gen. Wolgang von
O’Connor, Gen. Sir Richard
O’Daniel, Maj. Gen. John W. “Iron Mike”
Oder River
Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
“Field Manual No. 3”
Oflag XIII-B (German POW camp)
Oflag 64 (German POW camp)
Oflag 79 (German POW camp)
Ohrdruf concentration camp
oil.
See also
fuel supplies
Okinawa, Battle of
OKW.
See
German Oberkommando der Wehrmacht
Olga Nikolaevna, Grand Duchess of Russia
Olivier, Laurence
Omaha Beach
synthetic harbor
O’Malley, Patricia
O’Malley, Maj. Richard James
O’Neill, Col. James H.
Oosterbeek
Oppenheim, Patton crosses Rhine at
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Oradour-sur-Glane massacre
Oran
Orléans
Orne River
Ortona, Battle of
Orwell, George
Osnabrück, bombing of
Osthelmer, Sgt. Werner
Ott, Mel
Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor
Our River
OVERLORD
advance into Normandy and
airborne drop
armada on eve
Brittany ports and
Cherbourg and
COBRA
and
costs of
D-Day landings and
De Gaulle and
DRAGOON
and
Falaise and
German defenses and
GOODWOOD
and
Hitler and German response to
launched
Montgomery and
Mortain and
Patton and
planned
synthetic harbors and
weather delays and
Overy, Richard
Pacific campaign
Pact of Steel
Paderborn
Panter-Downes, Mollie
Paris
Bulge and
COMZ and
demolition fears and
liberation of
logistics and
Patton’s push toward
post-liberation
V-E Day and
Parker, Capt. James E.
Pas de Calais
Pash, Col. Boris T.
Passchendaele, Battle of (1917)
Passierschein
(safe-conduct pass)
Patch, Lt. Gen. Alexander McCarrell, Jr. “Sandy”
death of son and
DRAGOON
and Rhone campaign and
final days of war and
NORDWIND
and
personality of
Rhine crossing and
Strasbourg and
victory position of
Patch, Capt. Alexander M. “Mac”, III
Patch, Julia
Patton, Beatrice
Patton, Lt. Gen. George S., Jr,
XV Corps and
arrives in France to head Third Army
Bastogne and
black soldiers and
Bradley and
Brittany vs. Paris and
brothels and
Bulge and
casualties and
concentration camps and
Devers and
diary of
Eisenhower and
Eisenhower vs. Montgomery and
Falaise and
final days of war and
German campaign of
German surrender and
January 1945 position of
Lee and
Linz and
logistics and
manpower shortages and