(Characters with names in CAPS are historical, others fictional)

ANIELEWICZ, MORDECHAI Jewish fighting leader, Lodz, Poland

Apfelbaum, Moisei Colonel Skriabin’s clerk,gulagnear Petrozavodsk, USSR

Auerbach, Rance U.S. Army cavalry captain, Lamar, Colorado

Avram Partisan near Hrubieszow, Poland

Bagnall, George Flight engineer, Pskov, USSR

Beck Wehrmacht captain, Riga, Latvia

BEGIN, MENACHEM Jewish guerrilla, Haifa, Palestine

Birkenfeld; Oskar Jewish Order Service policeman Lodz, Poland

Boleslaw Pole in Lodz, Poland

Borcke, Martin Wehrmacht captain, Pskov, USSR

BRADLEY,OMAR U.S. Army lieutenant general, outside Denver

BROCKDORFF-AHLEFELDT, WALTER VON Wehrmacht lieutenant general, Riga, Latvia

Casimir Partisan leader outside Hrubieszow, Poland

Chaim Jewish guard, Lodz, Poland

CHILL, KURT Wehrmacht lieutenant general, Pskov, USSR

Daniels, Peter (“Mutt”) U.S. Army second lieutenant, Chicago

Dolger, Hans Wehrmacht captain and adjutant, Pskov, USSR

DONOVAN, WILLIAM (“WILDBILL”) U.S. Army major general, Hot Springs, Arkansas

Donskoi, Yakov Soviet interpreter, Cairo

Drucker, Johannes Panzer driver north of Lodz, Poland

Easter British Army colonel, Haifa, Palestine

EDEN, ANTHONY British foreign secretary

Embry, Ken RAF pilot, Pskov, USSR

Fleishman, Bertha Jewish fighter, Lodz, Poland

Fritz Wehrmacht ammunition hauler north of Lodz, Poland

Fyodorov, Ivan Soviet prisoner in transit

GERMAN, ALEKSANDR Partisan brigadier, Pskov, USSR

GODDARD, ROBERT Rocket scientist, Hot Springs, Arkansas

Goldfarb, David RAF radarman, Dover, England

Gorbunova, Ludmila Red Air Force senior lieutenant, Pskov, USSR

Grabowski U.S. Army corporal, Hot Springs, Arkansas

Grillparzer, Gunther Wehrmacht gunner outside Lodz, Poland

GROVES, LESLIE U.S. Army brigadier general, Metallurgical Laboratory, Denver

Gruver, Solomon Jewish fighter, Lodz, Poland

Hanrahan U.S. Army captain, outside Fordyce, Arkansas

Hawkins U.S. Army lieutenant, Hot Springs, Arkansas

Hines, Rachel U.S. Army cavalry private, Lamar, Colorado

Hsia Shou-Tao Communist guerrilla leader, Peking

HULL, CORDELL President of the United States

Ignacy Partisan leader outside Warsaw

Irma Waitress, Lamar, Colorado

Jager, Heinrich Wehrmacht panzer colonel outside Lodz, Poland

Joachim Wehrmacht ammunition hauler north of Lodz, Poland

Jones, Jerome RAF radarman Pskov, USSR

Jordan, Constantine RAF flight lieutenant, Dover, England

Kagan, Max American nuclear physicist, north of Moscow

Kapellmeister Wehrmacht major Kristianstand, Norway

Kaplan, Naomi Barmaid, White Horse Inn, Dover, England

Karol Farmer north of Lodz, Poland

KURCHATOV, IGOR Nuclear physicist, north of Moscow

Kurowski U.S. Army private, Chicago

Lidov, Boris NKVD colonel, Moscow

Liu Han Ex-peasant woman; guerrilla, Peking

Liu Mei Liu Han’s daughter

Logan Radioman near Fall Creek, Illinois

Magruder, Bill U.S. Army cavalry lieutenant, Lamar, Colorado

MAOTSE-TUNG Communist Party leader, Peking

Marchenko NKVD captain,gulagoutside Petrozavodsk, USSR

MARSHALL, GEORGE U.S. Secretary of State

Mather, Donald Captain, SAS, Dover, England

Mavrogordato, Panagiotis Captain of the freighter Naxos

Maxi SS officer north of Lodz, Poland

McBride RAF flying officer, Dover, England

Mehier, Karl Panzer loader north of Lodz, Poland

Mendel Jewish guard, Lodz, Poland

Mieczyslaw Farmer north of Lodz, Poland

Mikhailov, Anton Zek ingulagnear Petrozavodsk, USSR

MOLOTOV, VYACHESLAV Foreign commissar, USSR

Mori Japanese Army major, west of Peking

Muldoon, Herman U.S. Army sergeant, Chicago

NIEHHO-T’ING Guerrilla leader, Peking

Nussboym, David Political prisoner in transit

Osborne, Andy Guide near Karval, Colorado

Palchinsky, Yuri Guard, GULag near Petrozavodsk, USSR

PATTON, GEORGE U.S. Army lieutenant general near Fall Creek, Illinois

Peterson, Richard T echnician, Metallurgical Laboratory, Denver

Pirogova, Tatiana Red Army sniper, Pskov, USSR

Rasmussen U.S. Army lieutenant, Chicago

RIBBENTROP, JOACHIM VON German foreign minister

Rita Madam, Elgin, Illinois

Roundbush, Basil RAF flight lieutenant, Dover, England

Rudzutak, Stepan Gang boss ingulagnear Petrozavodsk, USSR

Russie, Moishe Jewish leader, approaching Palestine

Russie, Reuven Moishe and Rivka Russie’s son

Russie, Rivka Moishe Russie’s wife

Saul Jewish guard, Lodz, Poland

Schultz, Georg German mechanic attached to Red Air Force, Pskov, USSR

Sholom Partisan outside Hrubieszow, Poland

SKORZENY, OTTO SS Standartenfuhrer, North of Lodz, Poland

Skriabin NKVD colonel, GULag outside Petrozavodsk, USSR

Smithson, Hayward U.S. Army major, Medical Corps, Karval, Colorado

STALIN, IOSEF General Secretary, Communist Party, USSR

Stefarnia Partisan outside Hrubieszow, Poland

STERN Jewish guerrilla leader, Jerusalem

Summers, Penny Refugee, Lamar, Colorado

Su Shun-Ch’in Muslim qadi, Peking

Suzie Whore, Elgin, Illinois

Sylvia Barmaid, White Horse Inn, Dover, England

Szymanski, Stan U.S. Army captain, Elgin, Illinois

Tadeusz Farmer outside of Lodz, Poland

TOGO, SHIGENORI Japanese foreign minister

VASILIEV, NIKOLAI Partisan brigadier, Pskov, USSR

Witold Blacksmith, Hrubieszow Poland

Wladeslaw Partisan near Hrubieszow, Poland

Yeager, Barbara Sam Yeager’s wife

Yeager, Jonathan Sam and Barbara Yeager’s son

Yeager, Sam U.S. Army sergeant, Hot Springs, Arkansas

YitzkhakJ ew in Lodz Poland

Zelkowitz, Leon Jewish fighter, Lodz, Poland

Aaatos Intelligence operative, Florida

Atvar Fleetlord, conquest fleet of the Race