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

ANIELEWICZ, MORDECHAI Jewish partisan, eastern Poland

Archie Military Hospital Orderly, Chicago

Auerbach, Rance Captain, U.S. Cavalry, Syracuse, Kansas

BEAVERBROOK, LORD British Minister of Supply

Berkowitz, Benjamin Captain, U.S. Army; psychiatrist, Hot Springs, Arkansas

Beulah Receptionist, Hanford, Washington

BLAIR, ERIC BBC newsreader and author, London

Calhoun, Jake Cavalry trooper, U.S. Army

CHILL, KURT Wehrmacht Lieutenant General, Pskov, USSR

Chung, Horace Laundryman, Lewiston, Idaho

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

DEIBNER, KURT Nuclear physicist, Tubingen,Germany

Doc Physician, Chicago

Donnelly Bomb disposal expert, U. S. Army Chicago

Dolger Wehrmacht captain, Pskov, USSR

Edie Whore, Lewiston, Idaho

EINSTEIN, ALBERT Physicist, Couch, Missouri

EISENHOWER, DWIGHT U.S. Army General, Couch, Missouri

Embry, Ken RAF pilot, grounded in Pskov, USSR

Eschenbach, Wolfgang Panzer loader, Rouffach, Alsace

FERMI, ENRICO Nuclear physicist, Denver, Colorado