Free Finest Years by Max Hastings

376; see also Libya
    Northern Ireland: proposed union with south, 70–3
    Norway: campaign and debate (1940), 1–3, 8, 13, 21, 41; German forces intercept convoys to Russia, 166; refuses to sell gold for sterling, 173; WSC proposes attack on, 207, 295, 383; Stalin suggests British attack on, 327; Resistance in, 455
    Nover, Barnet, 530
    Nye, Gen. Sir Archibald, 266, 333
    O’Connor, Gen. Sir Richard, 121–4
    Olivier, Laurence ( later Baron), 499
    Omaha beach, Normandy, 487–8
    Other Club, The, 202
    Ottawa: WSC visits, 223
    Overlord , Operation: planning, 383, 385, 388, 390–1, 393, 426–7, 435, 443, 447; see also D-Day; second front
    Owen, Frank, 287
    Pacific: Japanese advance in, 217, 219; US commitment in, 354, 358; campaign in, 368–9; WSC promises major fleet for, 512
    Page, Sir Earle, 235
    Paget, Gen. Sir Bernard, 67, 454
    Pantellaria (island), 116
    Panter-Downes, Mollie, 4, 63–4, 76
    Papandreou, Georgios, 473, 514, 525, 526, 532, 534, 535, 538
    Paris: German advance on, 44, 46; Germans occupy, 51
    Park, Air Vice-Marshal (Sir) Keith, 97
    partisans see Resistance movements
    Patton, Gen. George S., 294 Pauli, Kurt, 136 Peake, Charles, 200
    Pearl Harbor, xviii, 212, 214, 370
    Pearson, Drew, 530, 540
    Peck, John, 585
    Pedestal (convoy), 326
    Persia, 162
    Pétain, Marshal Philippe, 26, 41, 46–7, 55, 69, 505
    Peter, King of Yugoslavia, 469, 543
    Philadelphia Inquirer , 13
    Philby, Kim, 321
    Philippines, 232
    Phillips, Admiral Tom, 205
    Picture Post (magazine), 254, 265
    Pile, Gen. Sir Frederick, 102
    Pim, Capt. Richard, RN, 239, 546, 580, 589
    Pittman, Key, 64
    Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, 191–9, 201, 208
    Plastiras, Gen. Nikolaus, 538–9
    Pogue, Forrest, 385, 388, 491
    Poland: falls to Germans, 1; Soviet advance in, 152; Soviet claims in, 244, 256, 289, 373; officers massacred by Russians, 373, 433, 444; hostility to Russia, 396, 445; boundaries discussed at Tehran, 434–5, 444; exile government in London, 435, 444–5, 480; WSC’s pessimism over post-war settlement, 445; Resistance, 456, 480; Home Army and Warsaw rising, 472, 503, 509, 513, 516; US deals with Russia over, 493, 503; WSC fails to protect from Soviet domination, 516–18, 545; post-liberation provisional government, 524; future decided at Yalta, 552–7; debated in Commons (1945), 556; under Soviet occupation, 557, 567; WSC proposes anti-Russian action to liberate, 571–6; discussed at Potsdam conference, 588
    Political Warfare Executive (PWE), 473
    Popov, Grigory, 538, 540
    Porch, Douglas, 297–8, 337
    Portal, Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles: qualities, 142; and proposed dismissal of Tedder, 208; liked by Americans, 229, 482; at Washington joint chiefs of staff meeting (May 1943), 378; supports bombing campaign, 379; and results of bombing campaign, 425; on Tehran conference as waste of time, 435; and WSC’s belief in local Resistance movements, 452; opposes using non-uniformed SOE officers, 456, 474; dispute with WSC over Far East strategy, 477; and bombing of Dresden and Potsdam, 558–9, 562–3; advocates heavy bombing of Rome, 561; WSC toasts on VE-Day, 568
    Porter, Cole, 255
    Portes, comtesse de, 47, 50
    Potsdam: bombed, 559; conference (July 1945), 584–9
    Pound, Admiral Sir Dudley: advocates sinking of French fleet, 45; pessimism, 48; attitude to WSC, 141; qualities, 141–4; at Placentia Bay meeting, 194–6; US view of, 229; and Fleet Air Arm’s few casualties, 246; death, 319; poor use of intelligence, 337; advocates submarine warfare, 379
    Powell, Anthony, 371
    Pownall, Lt.Gen. Henry: diary, xx; complains of lack of instructions, 22; and withdrawal from continent, 36; returns to London, 39; on WSC’s address on prosecution of war, 113; and Wavell’s view of war, 139; on WSC’s cabinet, 140; on Eden’s weak approach to Russians, 154; pessimism over Russian resistance to Germany, 156; hopes for mutual German-Soviet annihilation, 168; on