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A Centre, 84, 161, 164, Abderrahmane, Hamened, 203 170 Abercorn Restaurant bombing, 293 Army Group Vistula, 164, 168, 175 AC130 Spectre, 335 Army of the Republic of Vietnam Al Anbar, 322, 339, 340 (ARVN), 219, 220, 222, 224– Al Fajr, Operation, 330 227, 235, 236, 238–240, 254, Alleg, Henri, 207 258–261, 264–269, 272, 274 Alliance Party, 303 artillery, 1, 4, 7, 8, 10–12, 16, 26, 40, Almeida, 17, 18, 23 41, 44, 46, 47, 49–51, 60, 63, al Qaeda (AQ), 326, 336 69–71, 73, 76, 79, 81, 86, 88, Amtracks, 329, 336, 337, 339 91, 92, 104, 105, 108–117, 121, Andersonstown, 302, 305 122, 132–134, 137–144, 149, Anglo-Irish Agreement, 311 161, 162, 165, 167–172, 177, Anglo-Irish War of Independence, 289 179, 193, 215, 222, 225, 227, anti-tank guns, 50 231–234, 238, 260, 267, 268, Apache attack helicopter, 332, 335 326, 332, 338 Ardennes, 104, 159 Audin, Maurice, 207 Ardoyne, 297, 298, 300 Aussaresses, Major Paul, 195, 201, armoured bulldozers, 110, 330, 339 204, 207, 216 armoured personnel carriers (APCs), 105, 111, 268, 336 armoured vehicles, 112, 161, 172, B 328, 330, 333, 336–339 Badajoz, 17, 18 Army Group A (AGA), 61, 64–66, Baghdad, vi, vii, 322, 326, 327, 340 84, 99 Bagration, Operation, 159 (AGB), 61, 62, 64–66 Bailen, 3

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Ballykelly, 294 Bullen-Smith, Charles, 107 Banner, Operation, 297, 310, 313, Bülow von Dennewitz, Count, 24, 25, 316, 317 27, 28 Barbarossa, Operation, 56, 60, 65–67, Bunker, Ellsworth, 263, 276 95 Burma, 129, 130, 146 Barberousse prison, 191 Busse, General Theodore, 168–170 Barrikady Gun Factory, 69, 70, 80 Belfast City Centre Security Segment, 292, 293, 295, 296 C Belgium, 2, 23 Calcar, 114 Berlin Defence Area, 161, 164, 169 Cambodia, 257 Bigeard, Marcel (Colonel), 196, 197, Camp Fallujah, 326, 329–332, 335, 200–202, 204, 205, 208–210, 340 216 Casbah, 185, 188, 190, 191, 194, Blackhawk, 326, 332, 340 199–202, 204, 207–210, 214, Blackwater, 325, 326, 336 216, 322, 336 Blau 1, 57 Casells, Brigadier James, 107 Blau 2, 57, 61, 62, 96 Caucasus, 57, 61, 65, 66, 84, 99 Blau 3, 57, 61, 64, 66 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Blau 4, 57 256, 261, 278, 280 bled, 212 Central Offce of South Vietnam Blockbuster, Operation, 114 (COSVN), 258, 260, 274 ‘Bloody Friday’, 293 Centre de coordination interarmées, Blücher, Marshal Gebhard von, 23–25 200 Bock, Field Marshal, 61, 62 Challe Offensive, 212 bouclage, 186 Chiang Kai-shek, 36, 38, 43 Bouhired, Djamilla, 203, 207 Chinook, 326, 332 Bouhired, Moustapha, 203 Cholon, 267–269 Boumendjel, Ali, 204 Chuikov, Lieutenant General Vasily, Bowden, Lieutenant Colonel Colin, 68–70, 72, 73, 75, 76, 78–81, 298, 299, 316 83–87, 89, 93, 94, 97, 162, Bradley Armoured Fighting Vehicles 167–169, 176 (AFVs), 330, 331, 333, 334 Citadel, 224–228, 230, 233, 238, Bradley, Gerry ‘Whitey’, 296 240, 243 Bread Factory, 70, 88, 90–93 Ciudad Rodrigo, 17, 18 Breedeweg, 109 Clausewitz, Carl von, vi, 66, 84, 94, Bremer, Paul, 322 270, 314 Brennan, Brendan, 305 Coalition Provisional Authority, 322 British Army, 288–292, 303, 308, Cobra attack helicopter, 332 309, 312, 313, 315, 318, 322, colons, 186, 189–191, 214 348 Comité de Coordination et d’Exécu- British 14th Army, 130, 147 tion (Coordination and Action Index 365

Committee, CCE), 189, 201, F 202, 204 Falls Road Curfew, 302, 317 commandos de chasse, 212 Fallujah Brigade, 326, 327 Constantine, 192 Fedayeen, 322 Coso, 8, 9 Ferey, General Claude François, 18, Craufurd, Major General Robert, 18 20, 22, 23 Crerar, Lieutenant-General Harry, 104 Fermanagh, 309 Cumberland Trail, Operation, 228 F15 fghter, 332 F18 fghter, 332 Fiebig, Major-General Heinz, 105 D 51st Highland Infantry , 103 Damascus, 322 53rd Welsh Division, 105 Da Nang, 219, 223, 238, 261 1st Canadian Army, 104 de Bollardière, Jacques Paris, 205, 206 Francofonte, 108 De Gaulle, Charles, 189, 193 Froger, Amédée, 191 De-Militarized Zone (DMZ), 223, Frontiers, Battle of the, 189, 212 225 Führer bunker, 165 Developments, Concepts and Doctrine Führer Directive 41, 57, 65 Centre (DCDC), 346, 359, 360 Führer Directive 45, 65 Devers, Lieutenant-General Jacob, 104 Devlin, Paddy, 301, 302, 305, 307, 316, 317 G Dispositif de protection urbaine (Urban General Offensive-General Uprising, Security Organisation, DUP), 257, 259, 260, 274 200, 201 Gennep, 103, 105, 109, 110, 119– Dispositif opérationnel de protec- 121, 123 tion (Operational Security Germany, 55–57, 59, 68, 84, 95, 104, Organisation, DOP), 200 124, 153, 155, 156, 158, 159, Donegall Street bombing, 293 173, 176, 177, 179, 353 Dong Duc Training Center, 236 Goch, 103, 104, 107, 110–114, 118, Don, River, 57, 61, 62, 64–67, 80 120–122 Dreamland, 323, 324, 326, 328 Godard, Colonel Yves, 195, 196, 200, Drones, 172, 329, 332 207–210 Drouet, General Jean Baptiste, 22 Goebbels, Joseph, 176 Good Friday Agreement, 288, 312 Grafwegen, 109, 121 E Grant-Peterkin, Lieutenant-Colonel Eisenhower, General Dwight D., 104 James, 116–124 El Alamein, Battle of, 107 Grenade, Operation, 104, 105, 114 Elbe, River, 156, 161, 170 grenades, 9, 11, 14, 15, 76, 79, 91, Euphrates, River, 322–324, 327, 329, 92, 109, 119, 120, 137, 192, 331, 335, 336 210, 232, 264, 268, 337 366 Index

Grouchy, Marshal Emmanuel de, 24, I 25 Imperial Palace of Peace, 224 Grozny, vii, 57, 65, 66, 328 Indochina, 186, 189, 192, 193, 195– Guderian, General Heinz, 159, 163, 197, 205, 212, 214, 217, 282 164 IRA, 288, 289, 292–294, 296, 297, guerre révolutionnaire, 186, 212 299–305, 307–309, 311, 312, Gurtiev, Major-General Leonti, 82, 315 83, 89, 90, 92 Iran–Iraq War, 327 Iraq, v, vii, 281, 321, 322, 324–327, 329, 330, 336, 340, 346 H Iraqi Intervention Force (IIF), 338, Habbaniyah, 322–325, 331 339 Hadid, Omar, 326–328, 331 Irish National Liberation Army Hamas, 327 (INLA), 307 Hamid, Ben, 211, 217 Irrawaddy River, 130 Hanoi, 193, 244, 258, 274, 281 Harene, Gandriche, 208 Harrier, 332 J Hattab, Reda, 209 Japanese Army, 38, 40, 41, 43, 45, 50 Heath, Ted, 302 Japanese 15th Army, 129, 132 Heinrici, General Gotthard, 163, 164, Johnson, President Lyndon B., 221, 170, 175 225, 256, 257, 270 Hekkens, 105, 110, 111, 121 Jolan, 322, 324, 326, 327, 331, 332, Hermon, Jack, 305, 317 334–336, 339 Highway 10, 324, 329 Hitler, Adolf, 56, 57, 59–66, 68, 69, 77, 84–86, 88, 92, 93, 95, 107, K 152, 153, 159, 163, 174–176, Kapell, 112 178 Katamura, Lieutenant General Hitler Youth, 152, 165 Shihachi, 130, 144 Ho Chi Minh Trail, 257 Keitel, Field Marshal, 175 Hochwald-Balbergerwald, 114 Kessel, 61, 62, 64, 68, 70, 75, 76, 78, Horrocks, Lieutenant- General 87, 89, 91, 93, 110, 112, 121 Brian, 104, 105, 111, 116, 117, kesselschlachts, 59–62, 64–67, 75, 78, 124–127, 185 81, 87–89 Hue, 219–221, 223–249, 328, 340 KG Edelsheim, 73–75, 77, 79–83 Hue City, Operation, 220, 221, 231, KG Winterfeld, 77, 79–81, 83 236, 241 Kharkov, 60, 61 Humvee, 331, 333, 337–339 Khe Sanh, 221, 222, 241, 244, 261 Hussein, Saddam, 321–323, 325 King’s German Legion (KGL), 18 Index 367

King, Tom, 310 M Kiowa attack helicopter, 332 Maas, River, 104, 107, 114 Klein Esserden, 115, 120 machine guns, 40, 47, 51, 79, 108, Konev, Marshal Ivan, 157, 162, 167, 113, 119, 134, 136, 137, 140, 170 147, 168, 172, 204, 232, 233, Krylov, Major-General Nikolai, 69, 72 268, 328, 331–333 Kursk, 57, 159, 162 Madrid, vi, vii, 2, 3, 17 Kuwait, vii, 329 Malinovskiy, 64 Mamayev Kurgan, 71–73, 76–78, 80–82 L Manchukuo, 35, 36 Lacheroy, Charles, 195 Manchuria, 35, 38 Lacoste, Robert, 10, 12, 13, 192, 205, Manstein, Field Marshal Eric von, 60 206 Manteuffel, General Hasso von, 170 LaHue, Brigadier General Foster C. Marine Regimental Combat Teams “Frosty”, 228–230, 235–238, (RCTs), 329–331 240, 241, 246, 248, 249 Masséna, Marshal André, 17, 18, Lang Vei, 221, 222 20–22 Lannes, Marshal Jean, 3, 8–10, 12, Massu, General Jacques, 185, 190, 15, 17 192–199, 201–207, 209, 210, Laos, 229, 257 212, 215, 216 La Pointe, Ali, 210, 211, 217 Mattis, Major General Jim, 326 Leese, Oliver, 108 Meiktila, 130 Léger, Captain Paul, 208, 210, 212, M’Hidi, Ben, 204 217 Military Assistance Command, Le Havre, 108 Vietnam (MACV), 222, 224–226, Lejeune, General Louis-François, 3, 7, 233, 238, 243, 253, 254, 260, 16, 30, 205 262, 263, 266, 267, 279–283 Leningrad, 159 Mogadishu, vii, 321, 326, 340, 353 Libya, v, vii, 346 Möhnke, Brigadier General Wilhelm, Lisburn, 294 165, 175 Lisieux, 108, 124 Montgomery, Field Marshal Bernard, Londonderry, 287, 294, 301, 302, 316 104, 107, 114, 161 Lopatin, Lieutenant General, 68 Morocco, 186, 189 Lorillot, General, 194, 214 Mortars, 9, 71, 73, 79, 88, 91, 92, Luck, Colonel Hans Von, 174 108, 134, 137, 138, 141, 168, Luftwaffe, 61, 67, 69, 70, 73, 76, 79, 229, 230, 232, 234, 330, 335 80, 86, 88, 105, 164 , vi, 59, 65, 99, 100, 162, Lynch, Seamus, 305 175 368 Index

N Plunder, Operation, 103, 114, 161 Napoleon, vi, 2, 3, 23–30 Poland, 2, 155, 156, 162, 181 National Liberation Army (ALN), Portadown, 294 186, 189, 190, 197, 198, Portugal, 3, 17, 18 202–204, 206–209, 212, 217 Provisional Irish Republican Army National Liberation Front (FLN), 186, (PIRA). See IRA 191, 199, 202–205, 208–210, 215, 253, 274 Natonski, Major General Richard, Q 330, 336, 337 quadrillage, 186, 200 Neisse, River, 155–157, 167, 170 Niers, River, 107, 111, 112, 114 Northern Ireland Offce (NIO), 293, R 294, 300, 305, 306, 308, 309, Ramadi, 322, 339 315–317 Ramsbotham, Brigadier David, 307, North Vietnam, 222, 223, 238, 239, 308, 317 256, 257, 259, 272, 277 ratissage, 186 North Vietnamese Army (NVA), 219, Red October Steel Plant, 69–71, 78, 222–234, 237–239, 241, 245, 80–82, 86, 90 261, 266, 272, 282 Rees, Major General T.W. ‘Pete’, 130, 134, 141–143 Reich Chancellory, 165, 175 O Reichstag, 153, 165, 175, 176, 182 Observation Posts (OPs), 139, 231, Reichswald, 103–105, 107–109, 111, 288, 296, 328, 339 113, 117, 118, 124 Oder, River, 155–157, 161, 164, Remotely Operated Video Enhanced 167–169 Receiver (ROVER), 329 O’Neill, Terence, 290, 314, 318 Rennie, Tom, 107–110, 112, 115, Order No. 227, 63, 70 117, 118, 122, 123 Orel, River, 66 Renseignements Généraux (RG), 199, Orlovka salient, 81 202, 216 Republican Clubs, 305 Republican Guard, 322, 324 P Rheinberg, 114 Palafox, General José de, 16 Rock Crusher, 225, 231, 233, 237 Paulus, Field Marshal Friedrich, rocket launchers, 161, 172, 230, 55, 60, 61, 65, 67, 76, 78, 79, 262 81–84, 86–88, 90, 92, 93 rocket-propelled grenade (RPG), 245, Phantom Fury, Operation, 330 263, 328, 333, 334, 336–338 Phu Bai, 219, 223–225, 228, 233, Rodimstsev, Alexander (Major- 234, 236–238 General), 72 Phu Loc, 219, 223, 230, 234 Roer, River, 104, 114 Index 369

Rokossovsky, General Konstantin, 80, Shortis, Lieutenant Colonel Colin, 166 300 Romania, 57, 84 Shupp, Colonel Mike, 330, 334–336 Royal Artillery, 108, 111, 119 Siegfried Line, 107, 110, 111, 115 Royal Engineers (RE), 108, 112 Silikat, 69–71, 77, 78, 80, 82, 83 Royal Green Jackets, 307 Simmonds, Lieutenant-General Guy, Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), 114 287, 288, 292, 293, 296, Simpson, Lieutenant-General William, 298–300, 305–307, 310, 318 104, 114 Rumsfeld, Donald, 322 Sinn Fein, 305, 309 Slim, Lieutenant General Sir William J., 129, 130 S Smain, Hadj, 210 Saar, 104 Smekhotorov, General F.N., 76, 80 Saigon, vii, 253, 254, 256–262, 265, Social Democratic and Labour Party 267–277, 279, 280, 282 (SDLP), 305, 309 Salan, General Raoul, 192, 205, 207, Soummam Conference, 186 212 South Armagh, 294, 299 Santa Engracia, 4, 7–10 South Tyrone, 309 Santa Monica, 3, 4, 8–10, 12, 279 South Vietnam, 219, 220, 225, Schlem, General Alfred, 105, 115 235, 245, 253, 254, 256, 257, Schnellhefter Block, 77, 78, 83 259–262, 264–270, 272, 273, Schorner, General Ferdinand, 164, 170 275, 278, 280 2nd Army (British), 114 Special Branch (SB), 216, 298, 300, 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment 301, 316 (2 PARA), 297, 298, 300, 316 Special Forces, 195, 222, 308 Seelow Heights, 167–169 Speldorp, 115 self-propelled assault guns, 161 SS, 123, 152, 159, 164, 165, 171, self-propelled guns, 109, 110, 115, 173, 175, 176, 181 177, 179, 330 Stalin, 56, 60, 62, 63, 69, 84–86, 93, Service de Documentation Extérieure 161, 162, 169, 172, 176 et de Contre-Espionnage Stalingrad-1 station, 72, 75 (SDECE), 195, 216 Stalingrad-2 station, 73–75 Sevastopol, 61 Stavka, 62, 76, 80, 82 Seydlitz, Walther von, 68, 72, 73, 77, St Martensberg, 109, 121 78, 82, 83, 88, 89, 92, 93 Stopford, Lieutenant General ‘Shark’s Fin’, 324, 331 Montagu, 130 Shaposhnikov, 60, 62 Sunningdale Agreement, 296 Sheil, Brigadier Jerry, 108, 110 Syria, v, vii, 322, 323, 325, 346 370 Index

T Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), 302, 318 Tanks, 35, 46, 49–51, 60, 61, 72, 77, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), 79, 87, 88, 90, 91, 105, 108– 329, 332, 335 110, 112–115, 122, 123, 132, Uranus, Operation, 85 134, 135, 137, 138, 140, 143, US Army, 219, 229, 232, 237, 241, 161, 162, 165, 167–172, 177, 254, 257, 258, 263, 266–268, 179, 181, 230, 232, 246, 266, 275, 277–280, 282 329, 330, 333–335, 337–339, US Embassy (Saigon), 254, 262 357, 357 US Marine , 219, 227–229, Task Force Wolfpack, 331 241–249, 334, 338 Task Force X-Ray, 228, 229, 239, US Marines, 329, 331, 339 246, 248, 249 Tennis Racket, 79, 80 10th Parachute Division (10 DP), 185, V 186, 192–195, 197–208, 212, Vasilevsky, General Aleksandr, 60, 62, 213 85 Tet, 219–223, 225, 226, 229, 236, Vehicle borne IEDs (VBIEDs), 327, 237, 239, 241–245, 249, 253, 332 254, 256, 257, 260, 261, Vehicle Check Points (VCPs), 288, 269–272, 274, 277, 278, 281, 294, 308, 309 282, 311 Vengeful, Operation, 309, 318 Thieu, President Nguyen, 254, 259, Verdier, General Jean-Antoine, 2 265, 268, 272, 276 Veritable, Operation, 103–105, 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment 107–109, 111, 114, 118, 127 (3 PARA), 303, 317 Vernichtungschlacht, 59 Tietgen, Paul, 205, 211, 213 Viet Cong (VC), 219, 220, 222, 223, Timoshenko, General Semyon, 60, 62 225–229, 231, 232, 234, 236– Tractor Factory, 69–71, 77, 78, 81, 239, 253, 254, 256, 258–277, 83, 86, 87 279, 281 Trinquier, Lieutenant Colonel Roger, Vietnam War, 219, 225–228, 236, 195, 200, 201, 214 239, 241–243, 269, 270 “Troubles”, 287–289, 292, 294, 302, Villers, 112 303, 310, 311, 313, 314, 318 Vishnevaiia Balka, 71, 77–79 Tucker, Colonel Craig, 330, 336 , River, 57, 61, 64, 66–68, Tunisia, 186, 189, 193, 212 70–80, 82, 83, 85–93 21st Army Group, 104, 114, 115, 161 Volkssturm, 164, 165

U W Ůdem, 114 Walbert, Denise, 204 Ulster Defence Association (UDA), 296 Warsaw, vii, 2, 161 Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), Waterloo, 2, 24, 29 294, 298, 310 Wavre, 24, 25 Index 371

Weichs, Field Marshal von, 61, 62, 65, Y 67, 68, 86–88 Yacef, Saadi, 191, 204, 207–211, 217 Weidling, General Helmuth, 164, 170, Yangtze River, 34, 39, 48 171, 175, 176 Wellington, Lieutenant General Viscount, 17, 18, 20–25, 29, 30 Z Wenck, Lieutenant General Walter, Zarqawi, Abu Musab, 326–328, 336 170 Zeitzler, Major-General Kurt, 77 Westmoreland, William C. “Westy”, Zhabei district, 35, 40, 41, 47, 51 222, 240, 243, 257, 260, 261, Zholudev, Major-General, 82, 86 263, 270, 271, 278, 281 Zhukov, Marshal Georgy, 161 Weyand, Lieutenant General Frederick Zone Autonome Algéroise (ZAA: C., 260, 261, 267, 268, 270, Algiers Autonomous Zone), 189, 271, 276, 278, 281, 283 191, 210 Wimberley, Douglas, 107, 108 Zoo Flak Tower, 165, 176 Wyler, 105