Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food by Lizzie Collingham Page A

303, 462
civilian 11, 317
military 1, 10, 270, 311, 314, 315, 316, 317, 344
total wartime 1
Ceylon 67, 120, 129, 497
Cherwell, Lord 113, 145
Chiang Kaishek 50, 248, 249, 250, 252, 254
China 2, 80, 20, 21, 72, 74, 77, 230, 231, 248–61, 262, 437, 489, 490, 500
and extraterritoriality 49–50
and contemporary food consumption 2–3, 499
and United States 2, 49, 257, 261
communists in 249, 258–61
food shortage in 11, 253, 255, 469, 476
Japanese settlers in 7, 31–2, 60–62
Nationalist China 49, 50–54, 63, 66, 69, 249, 250, 251, 300
rationing in 253
supplying food for Japan 7, 246, 481
war with Japan 58, 62, 63, 64, 234, 236, 248, 273, 278, 279
see also aerial bombardment; blockade
Chinese Nationalist army 254, 256, 257
Churchill, Winston S. 68, 105, 113, 145, 395, 398
and Battle of the Atlantic 102, 107, 108, 125, 127, 136
and Bengal famine 105, 145, 150, 151, 152, 153
and British food rationing 361, 364
and blockade of occupied Europe 35, 167, 168, 177, 468
civilian internees 7, 134, 314
Clay, General Lucius D. 486
climate change 4, 501
Coca-Cola 424, 438–9, 455, 460, 474, 488, 496
cocoa 19, 67, 69, 284, 363, 377, 393, 400, 410, 422, 477
farming 68, 138, 140, 141
cod liver oil 108, 396
coffee 25, 68, 69, 79, 128, 133, 174, 201, 209, 283, 284, 351, 353, 357, 359, 373, 375, 383, 404, 415, 419, 422, 430, 432, 435, 436, 438, 440, 441, 446, 451, 452, 457, 493
Combined Food Board 69, 92, 103, 125, 482
Combined Shipping Adjustments Board 68, 118
Committee on Food Habits 120, 128
Commonwealth, the 20, 24, 68, 92, 97, 101
see also Britain; individual dominions
Commonwealth armed forces 10, 271, 274, 385, 406, 414, 436, 462
communism 10, 270, 325, 345, 486, 487, 489, 490, 499
concentration camps 44, 161, 206, 207, 369, 371, 372
food/rations in 5, 11, 264, 372–3
see also extermination camps
condensed (high-energy) foods 8, 20, 90, 101, 112, 340, 405, 418, 496
conscription/the draft 61, 72, 78, 79, 96, 134, 135, 181, 231, 236, 239, 255, 256, 278, 320, 369, 417, 435, 436
Conti, Leonardo 181, 182, 203
County War Agricultural Executive Committees 95–6
Crete 127, 443
Cyprus 67, 126, 129, 404
Czechoslovakia 7, 42, 208, 469, 480
Darré, Richard Walther 28, 29, 30, 32–4, 47, 155, 173, 370, 377
D-Day (6 June 1944) 118
death rate 7, 166, 177, 192, 240, 349, 350, 469, 495
dehydrated foods 84, 94, 97–8, 340, 401, 407, 408, 409, 411, 437, 441, 442, 444, 450, 451, 452, 461, 492–3
Denmark 34, 46, 98, 165, 175, 178, 263, 353
Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) see German Labour Front
developing world 2, 3, 4, 459, 499, 500
see also underdeveloped countries
Digging for Victory see vegetable growing
Dönitz, Admiral Karl 103, 104, 110, 117
drought 4, 71, 87, 114, 124, 125, 132, 134, 135, 227, 234, 244, 246, 255, 258, 471, 476
Drummond, Jack, 347, 387, 389, 472
Dutch East Indies 63, 235, 244, 309, 314
see also Indonesia
East Africa 105, 126, 132–8, 413
eastern front 39, 92, 112, 159, 170, 184, 185, 224, 270, 303, 323, 324, 334, 369, 382
conditions on 183, 199–203, 321–2
war of annihilation 39, 185, 324, 346, 464
Ehlich, Hans 42, 43, 47
eggs 20, 112, 163, 185, 221, 288, 330, 333, 339, 341, 378, 421, 427, 446, 490
availability/shortages 115, 338, 356, 362, 367, 389, 405, 431, 477
ban on purchasing 193, 213, 360
consumption 13, 170, 171, 357, 393, 418, 428, 436, 437, 451, 499
dried 77, 100, 334, 340, 394, 450
production 106, 174, 486, 491
Egypt 4, 107, 128, 404, 437, 495
as military base 121, 126, 127, 130, 131, 132, 141, 167, 403
food production in 129, 130–32, 403, 404
Einsatzgruppen 39, 189, 224, 236
Eisenhower, General 177, 480
Ellice Islands 452–4
Eritrea 31, 130
Ethiopia 31, 105, 126, 130, 133
ethnic Germans ( Volksdeutsche ) 42–6
extermination camps
Auschwitz 6, 45, 206, 372
Belzec 206, 208, 211, 212
Majdanek 206
Sobibor 209, 212
Treblinka 206, 209, 211, 264
famine 1, 5, 7, 72, 77, 127, 130, 264, 382, 451
as a result of collectivization 86, 214, 221, 216, 325, 490
Bengal 1, 12, 141–54, 264, 496
Chinese 7, 11, 255–6
Dutch Hunger