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

ANIELEWICZ, MORDECHAI Leader of Jewish fighters in Poland

Auerbach, Rance Captain, U.S. Army Cavalry

Bagnall, George flight engineer in RAF bomber crew

Barisha Tavern keeper in Split, Independent State of Croatia

Berkowicz, Stefan Landlord in Lodz

BLAIR, ERIC BBC talks producer, Indian Section, London

Borcke, Martin Wehrmacht captain and interpreter in Pskov

CHILL, KURT Wehrmacht lieutenant general, 122nd Infantry, in Pskov

CHURCHILL, WINSTON prime minister of Great Britain

COMPTON, ARTHUR supervisor, University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory

Cooley, Mary Waitress in Idaho Springs, Colorado

Daniels, Pete ("Mutt") Sergeant, U.S. Army, in Illinois; former minor-league manager

DIEBNER, KURT Nuclear physicist, Hechingen, Germany

Donlan, Kevin U.S. Army private in Naperville, Illinois

Embry, Ken pilot of RAF bomber crew

FERMI, ENRICO nuclear physicist at the University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory

FERMI, LAURA Enrico Fermis wife

Fiore, Bobby Lizard experimental subject; former baseball player

FLEROV, GEORGI Soviet nuclear physicist

Fritzie Cowboy in Chugwater, Wyoming

Fukuoka, Yoshi Japanese soldier in China

GERMAN, ALEKSANDR Commander of Second Partisan Brigade in Pskov

Goldfarb, David RAF radarman

Gorbunova, Ludmila Red Air Force pilot

GROVES, LESLIE Engineer, U.S. Army colonel