Lieutenant Murray, aide to Fitz
Mannie Litov, factory owner
Jock Reid, treasurer of the Aldgate Independent Labour Party
Jayne McCulley, soldier’s wife
REAL HISTORICAL CHARACTERS
King George V
Queen Mary
Mansfield Smith-Cumming, called “C,” head of the Foreign Section of the Secret Service Bureau (later MI6)
Sir Edward Grey, M.P., foreign secretary
Sir William Tyrrell, private secretary to Grey
Frances Stevenson, mistress of Lloyd George
Winston Churchill, M.P.
H. H. Asquith, M.P., prime minister
Sir John French, commander of the British Expeditionary Force
French
Gini, a bar girl
Colonel Dupuys, aide to General Galliéni
General Lourceau, aide to General Joffre
REAL HISTORICAL CHARACTERS
General Joffre, commander in chief of French forces
General Galliéni, commander of the Paris garrison
German and Austrian
VON ULRICH FAMILY
Otto von Ulrich, diplomat
Susanne von Ulrich, his wife
Walter von Ulrich, their son, military attaché at the German embassy in London
Greta von Ulrich, their daughter
Graf (Count) Robert von Ulrich, Walter’s second cousin, military attaché at the Austrian embassy in London
OTHERS
Gottfried von Kessel, cultural attaché at the German embassy in London
Monika von der Helbard, Greta’s best friend
REAL HISTORICAL CHARACTERS
Prince Karl Lichnowsky, German ambassador to London
Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg
General of Infantry Erich Ludendorff
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German chancellor
Arthur Zimmermann, German foreign minister
Russian
PESHKOV FAMILY
Grigori Peshkov, metalworker
Lev Peshkov, horse wrangler
PUTILOV MACHINE WORKS
Konstantin, lathe operator, chairman of the Bolshevik discussion group