Labour Party, 10, 105
Langdon-Davies, John, 90–92
Leicester, 57
Leigh-Mallory, Trafford, Air Vice-Marshall, 32, 85
Liberal Party, 10, 29
Liège, 45
‘Linatex’, 37
Liverpool, 43, 62, 79
Lloyd-George, David, 9, 11
Local Defence Volunteers, 121
London, 7, 35, 43, 47, 55, 78–87, 90–95, 98, 117
losses, 72–3, 86–7, 96, 116–19, 147
Lufthansa, 51
Lympne, 69–70
Manchuria, 122
Manston, 69–70
Mediterranean, 87, 104, 107
Middle East, 34–5
Milch, Erhard, Field Marshall, 51
Mill Hill, 83
Ministry see under Ministry title
Moscow, 35, 121
Mussolini, Benito, 87, 107
Netherlands, 48
‘New Order’, 21
New Zealand, 15
Newall, Sir Cyril, Air Chief Marshall, 30–31, 34, 49, 118
Newcastle, 62
Nicolson, Harold, 75, 103, 105
Normandy, Battle of, xi, 109
Norway, 47
Observer Corps, 40–41
Old Kent Road, 83
Olympia, 39
Operation Barbarossa, 22
Operation Sealion, 19, 22, 27, 56, 79, 87–9, 108–9
Operational Training Units, 73–4
Orwell, George, 92, 117, 122
Ostend, 63
Park, Keith, Air Vice-Marshall, 31–2, 39, 62, 67, 70–71, 74–7, 81, 84–6, 110–11, 117
Pas de Calais, 48
Passchendaele, Battle of, xi
Pile, Sir Frederick, Lt General, 42–3
pilot numbers, 37–9, 54–5, 73–4, 112–13, 148
Plymouth, 91
poison gas, 46–7, 105–6
Poland, 3, 6, 55
Polish Air Force, 7
Polish Fighter Command squadrons, 38–9
Portal, Sir Charles, Air Marshall, 118
Quade, General, 27
radar (RDF), 4, 40–42, 69, 72, 84
Radio-Telephony Direction Finding (R/T-D/F), 40–41
Raeder, Erich, Grossadmiral, 16–17, 27, 87–8
Ramsgate, 19
Red Army, 22
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 17–19
Richmond, 83
Richthofen squadron, 28
Romania, 22
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 120
Royal Air Force (RAF), xii–xiii, 6–8, 23, 29–30, 35, 44–5, 49, 52, 56, 63–6, 72–7, 88, 106, 110–17
Royal Flying Corps, 29–30
Royal Navy, 6, 63, 108
St Pancras, 83
Schmidt, Josef ‘Beppo,’ Colonel, 114
Schulenburg, Friedrich von der, 18
Scotland, 13–14
Scunthorpe, 62
Sevastopol, 121
Shirer, William, 20, 82
Shropshire, 66
‘Silent Column’ campaign, 14
Sinclair, Sir Archibald, 28–9, 38, 118
Slough, 83
Somaliland, 103–4
Somerset, 66
Somme, Battle of, xi
South Africa, 15
Southampton, 62, 91, 98
Southgate, 83
Soviet Union, 22, 34–5, 103, 107
Spain, 87, 107
Spanish Civil War, 48
Sperrle, Hugo, Field Marshall, 48–9, 57, 111
Stalingrad, 120–21
Stanmore, 39–40
Stockwell, 90
Stumpff, Hans, General, 57
Sudetenland, 13–14
Surrey, 47
Sussex, 47, 68–9
Switzerland, 106
terror attacks, 5, 89, 97–8
Tonbridge, 75
Trafalgar, Battle of, xi, 122
Trafalgar Day, 122
Treasury, 76
Trenchard, Lord, Marshall of the RAF, 118
Udet, Ernst, Colonel, 51–3
‘Ultra’ see ‘Enigma’
United States of America, 103, 118–20
USSR see Soviet Union
Uxbridge (11 Group HQ), 74
Ventnor, 72
Wales, 13–14
War Office, 13
Warrington–Morris, A. D., Air Commodore, 41
Warsaw, 55
Wedel, Haffl von, Lt, 113
Wembley, 83
Western Front, 28
Wimbledon, 83
Wood Green, 83
*includes 2 half-strength squadrons
**includes 1 part-strength squadron