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O’Connor advances into, 122–3; Montgomery advances across, 345; see also North Africa
    Lidice, Czechoslovakia, 455
    Life magazine, 542
    Lindbergh, Col. Charles, 32, 214
    Lindemann, Frederick see Cherwell, Viscount Linlithgow, Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of, 174
    Lippmann, Walter, 300, 531
    Lloyd, George Ambrose, 1st Baron, 119
    Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl, 27, 37, 90, 105, 202
    Lockhart, Sir Robert Bruce, 476
    Lofoten Islands, 116
    Loftus, P.C., 252
    London: bombed, 87, 97–8
    Lothian, Philip Henry Kerr, 11th Marquess of, 31, 78, 105, 172
    Lübeck: bombed, 247
    Lucas, Maj.Gen. John, 440–2
    Luce, Henry, 253, 382
    Luftwaffe: losses, 60, 99, 162; bombing campaign against Britain, 73, 78–81, 97–9, 107; navigation beams jammed, 84–5; blitz on London, 87, 97–8, 103; aircraft supply and replacement, 100; failure against Britain, 101; night attacks, 103; dominance in Mediterranean, 129; superiority in Aegean operation, 407–14; at Anzio, 441
    Luxembourg: Germans invade, 5
    Lyttelton, Oliver ( later Viscount Chandos), 204, 264, 310, 457
    MacArthur, Gen. Douglas, 369, 404
    McIntosh, Jennifer, 579
    Maclean, Alastair: The Guns of Navarone , 401
    Maclean, Billy, 462
    Maclean, Donald, 163, 321
    Maclean, Brig. Fitzroy, 467
    Macmillan, Harold ( later 1st Earl of Stockton): as
    party to revolt against old guard politicians, 48; on WSC’s persuasiveness with Americans, 221, 596–7; on sybaritic lifestyle in Cairo, 264; low opinion of senior army officers, 266; on unpredictable course of war, 308; as resident minister in Mediterranean, 348; on de Gaulle, 349; on Casablanca conference, 355, 356; on appearance of Americans, 371; on Eisenhower as Mediterranean supreme commander, 383; on Maitland-Wilson, 403; meets WSC on Renown , 427; on WSC’s powers as old man, 428; urges Alexander’s appointment to Overlord command, 438; on campaign in Italy, 442; on difficult relations with French, 446; on relations with WSC, 447; on deteriorating Anglo-American relations, 448; at Chequers with WSC, 450; on political complexities of aiding partisan groups, 469; told of declining British prestige in Balkans, 473; and WSC’s exhaustion, 490; WSC discusses Mditerranean policy with, 506; and post-liberation Greek politics, 526, 531–3; meets WSC in Commons after December 1944 vote of confidence, 529; and WSC’s 1944 visit to Athens, 535, 537
    Macmillan (publishers), 590
    McNarney, Lt.Gen. Joseph, 186
    McNaughton, Maj.Gen. Andrew, 53
    McNaughton, Frank, 222
    McVeagh, Lincoln, 527
    Madagascar: Britain occupies, 256, 294
    Maginot Line, 12, 16
    Maisky, Ivan: admiration for WSC, 104–5; given access to WSC after Soviet entry into war, 160; and British aid for Russia, 201; on qualities of British soldiers, 263; indiscretions, 324; recalled to Moscow, 398
    Maitland-Wilson, Gen. Sir Henry (‘Jumbo’): Macmillan criticises, 264, 438; and Dodecanese (Aegean) operation, 402–6, 411–12, 416, 419, 421; proposed as Eisenhower’s successor in Mediterranean, 437–8; briefs WSC on Anzio plan, 439; recommends cancelling Anvil , 448; proposes drive in northern Italy, 494; WSC visits in Italy, 505–6; Alexander replaces as Mediterranean C.in C., 530; on US fears of conflict with Russia, 577
    Majdalany, Fred, 427
    Malaya: Japanese overrun, 212, 218–19, 226–7, 234, 239–40; strategy for recapture, 477
    Malta, 134, 162, 251, 326, 427
    Manchester Guardian , 234
    Mandalay: falls to Japanese, 251
    maquis (French Resistance), 455, 474
    March, Juan, 137
    Margesson, David, 2, 10, 211
    Marlborough, Charles Churchill, 9th Duke of (‘Sunny’), 179
    Marrakesh, Morocco, 361, 438
    Marseilles: Resistance activities punished, 455; as Allied port, 482
    Marshall, Gen. George: objects to sending US arms to Allies, 31; caution over US entry into war, 186; staff divided in support for belligerents, 186; at Placentia Bay meeting, 194–5; and delay between