The Day We Went to War (62 page)

evacuation of works of art
(i)

lunchtime concerts
(i)
illus.,
(ii)

National Register
(i)
,
(ii)

National Socialist League (Britain)
(i)

Naujocks, Alfred
(i)
,
(ii)

naval war
(i)

and
Admiral Graf Spee
(i)
,
(ii)
illus.

Christmas 1939
(i)

Nazi-Soviet pact
see
German-Soviet pact

Netherlands
(i)

waiting for war
(i)

New Year’s Eve 1939
(i)

New Zealand
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Newall, Air Chief Marshal Sir Cyril
(i)
illus.,
(ii)

Nicolson, Harold
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

Niven, David
(i)

Noël, Leon
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Novello, Ivor
(i)

‘Old Fighters’
(i)

Oliver, Sarah
(i)

Oliver, Vic
(i)
,
(ii)

Ouvry, Lieutenant Commander John D G
(i)
illus.

Paasikivi, J K
(i)

Pacelli, Cardinal Eugenio
see
Pius XII, Pope (Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli)

pacifists and peace campaigners
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)

Pact of Steel (1939)
(i)
,
(ii)

Papen, Franz von
(i)
,
(ii)

Parker, Ross
(i)

Payne-Best, Captain Sigismund
(i)
illus.

kidnapping of
(i)

peace initiatives
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Peace Statement (FDR)
(i)

People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA)
(i)

Petain, Marshal Philippe, ‘Hero of Verdun’
(i)

Phipps, Sir Eric
(i)
,
(ii)

‘Phoney War’
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Picture Post
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)
,
(xiii)
,
(xiv)
,
(xv)
,
(xvi)
,
(xvii)
,
(xviii)

Pitschen (Poland)
(i)

Pius XII, Pope (Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Poland
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
see also
German-Soviet pact; invasion of Poland (‘Case White’)

armed forces
(i)
,
(ii)

Britain’s guarantee
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)

brutality of occupation
(i)

Christmas 1939
(i)

entreaties to French
(i)

fall
(i)

and German aggression
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

German ambassador to
(i)

government-in-exile
(i)

Hitler’s sixteen proposals
(i)

military strength
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

pre-war mood
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

requests RAF support
(i)

resistance
(i)

Soviet threat
(i)

surrounded
(i)

warning to Gemany
(i)

Polish Corridor
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

falls to Germans
(i)

Polish Post Office (Danzig)
(i)

Polish-German Agreement
(i)

Poniatowski, Prince Joseph
(i)

Pope, Alex
(i)

Post, Evert
(i)

Pottinger, Captain Charles
(i)

Pound, Admiral Sir Dudley
(i)
illus.,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,

Present Laughter
(1939)
(i)

Priday, Corporal Thomas
(i)

Prien, Kapitänleutnant Gunther
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
illus.

propaganda
see also
Royal Air Force

British
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)

French
(i)
,
(ii)

German
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
illus.,
(viii)
illus.,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)
(
see also
Joyce, William (Lord Haw-Haw))

provincial theatres
(i)

Prueller, Wilhelm: war diaries
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)

Raczynski, Edward
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Raeder, Admiral Erich
(i)
,
(ii)
illus.

Raleigh, John ‘Jack’ McCutcheon
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

rationing: food and petrol
(i)

Rawalpindi,
HMS (armed merchant cruiser)
(i)
illus.

Red Army
(i)
illus.,
(ii)

refugees
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
see also
evacuation

Reichenau, General Walther
(i)

Reichstag
(i)
,
(ii)
illus.

Remembrance Day, 1939
(i)

Rex, Jessie
(i)
,
(ii)

Reynaud, Paul
(i)
,
(ii)

Ribbentrop, Joachim von
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
illus.,
(vi)
illus.,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)
,
(xii)
,
(xiii)
,
(xiv)
,
(xv)
,
(xvi)
,
(xvii)
,
(xviii)
,
(xix)
,
(xx)
,
(xxi)
,
(xxii)
,
(xxiii)
,
(xxiv)
,
(xxv)

River Plate, Battle of
(i)

RMS Athlone Castle
(i)

Roberts, Cecil
(i)
,
(ii)

Roosevelt, Franklin D (FDR)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)
,
(ix)
,
(x)
,
(xi)

Rothenstein, John
(i)
,
(ii)

Roumania
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Royal Air Force
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
illus.,
(iv)
,
(v)

assault on German Fleet
(i)

commencement of hostilities
(i)
,
(ii)

leaflet drops over Germany
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
illus.

Royal Navy
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

commencement of hostilities
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

hits and losses
(i)

Royal Oak,
HMS (battleship)
(i)
,
(ii)

‘Run, Rabbit, Run’
(i)
,
(ii)

Russell, John
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Russell, William
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)

Russia-German Pact
see
German-Soviet pact

‘Saar Offensive’
(i)
,
(ii)
illus.

Savage, Michael Joseph
(i)
,
(ii)

Scarles, Sir Edward
(i)

Schellenberg, Walter
(i)

Schleswig-Holstein
(battleship)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Schmidt, Dr Paul
(i)
illus.,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Schuhart, Kapitänleutnant Otto
(i)
,
(ii)
illus.

Schulenberg, Friedrich-Werner von der
(i)

Schultz, Sigrid
(i)
,
(ii)

2nd September 1939
(i)

Seeds, Sir William
(i)
,
(ii)

Sewell, J F
(i)
,
(ii)

Shape of Things to Come, The
(H G Wells)
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Shaw, George Bernard
(i)

Shipyard Sally
(i)
,
(ii)

Shirer, William
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Shkvartsev, Alexander
(i)
,
(ii)
illus.

Sikorski, General Wladyslaw
(i)

Simon, Sir John
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
illus.,
(vi)
,
(vii)
,
(viii)

Sinclair, Sir Archibald
(i)
,
(ii)

Slovakia
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
see also
Czecho-Slovakia

Smigly-Rydz, Marshal
(i)
,
(ii)

Smuts, General Jan Christian
(i)
,
(ii)

South Africa, Union of
(i)

Southern Cross
(yacht)
(i)
,
(ii)

Soviet-Japanese War (1939)
(i)

Spain
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)

Spanish Civil War
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)

Spears, Sir Edward
(i)
,
(ii)

Speed, Florence: war diaries
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)
,
(v)
,
(vi)
,
(vii)

Speer, Albert
(i)

Spender, Stephen
(i)

Spier, Eugen
(i)
,
(ii)
,
(iii)
,
(iv)