Harry Turtledove: Striking the Balance

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

ANIELEWICZ, MORDECHAIJewish fighting leader, Lodz, Poland

Apfelbaum, MoiseiColonel Skriabin’s clerk, gulag near Petrozavodsk, USSR

Auerbach, RanceU.S. Army cavalry captain, Lamar, Colorado

AvramPartisan near Hrubieszow, Poland

Bagnall, GeorgeFlight engineer, Pskov, USSR

BeckWehrmacht captain, Riga, Latvia

BEGIN, MENACHEMJewish guerrilla, Haifa, Palestine

Birkenfeld; OskarJewish Order Service policeman Lodz, Poland

BoleslawPole in Lodz, Poland

Borcke, MartinWehrmacht captain, Pskov, USSR

BRADLEY,OMARU.S. Army lieutenant general, outside Denver

BROCKDORFF-AHLEFELDT, WALTER VONWehrmacht lieutenant general, Riga, Latvia

CasimirPartisan leader outside Hrubieszow, Poland

ChaimJewish guard, Lodz, Poland

CHILL, KURTWehrmacht lieutenant general, Pskov, USSR

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

Dolger, HansWehrmacht captain and adjutant, Pskov, USSR

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

Donskoi, YakovSoviet interpreter, Cairo

Drucker, JohannesPanzer driver north of Lodz, Poland

EasterBritish Army colonel, Haifa, Palestine

EDEN, ANTHONYBritish foreign secretary

Embry, KenRAF pilot, Pskov, USSR

Fleishman, BerthaJewish fighter, Lodz, Poland

FritzWehrmacht ammunition hauler north of Lodz, Poland

Fyodorov, IvanSoviet prisoner in transit

GERMAN, ALEKSANDRPartisan brigadier, Pskov, USSR

GODDARD, ROBERTRocket scientist, Hot Springs, Arkansas

Goldfarb, DavidRAF radarman, Dover, England

Gorbunova, LudmilaRed Air Force senior lieutenant, Pskov, USSR

GrabowskiU.S. Army corporal, Hot Springs, Arkansas

Grillparzer, GuntherWehrmacht gunner outside Lodz, Poland

GROVES, LESLIEU.S. Army brigadier general, Metallurgical Laboratory, Denver

Gruver, SolomonJewish fighter, Lodz, Poland

HanrahanU.S. Army captain, outside Fordyce, Arkansas

HawkinsU.S. Army lieutenant, Hot Springs, Arkansas

Hines, RachelU.S. Army cavalry private, Lamar, Colorado

Hsia Shou-TaoCommunist guerrilla leader, Peking

HULL, CORDELLPresident of the United States

IgnacyPartisan leader outside Warsaw

IrmaWaitress, Lamar, Colorado

Jager, HeinrichWehrmacht panzer colonel outside Lodz, Poland

JoachimWehrmacht ammunition hauler north of Lodz, Poland

Jones, JeromeRAF radarman Pskov, USSR

Jordan, ConstantineRAF flight lieutenant, Dover, England

Kagan, MaxAmerican nuclear physicist, north of Moscow

KapellmeisterWehrmacht major Kristianstand, Norway

Kaplan, NaomiBarmaid, White Horse Inn, Dover, England

KarolFarmer north of Lodz, Poland

KURCHATOV, IGORNuclear physicist, north of Moscow

KurowskiU.S. Army private, Chicago

Lidov, BorisNKVD colonel, Moscow

Liu HanEx-peasant woman; guerrilla, Peking

Liu MeiLiu Han’s daughter

LoganRadioman near Fall Creek, Illinois

Magruder, BillU.S. Army cavalry lieutenant, Lamar, Colorado

MAOTSE-TUNGCommunist Party leader, Peking

MarchenkoNKVD captain, gulag outside Petrozavodsk, USSR

MARSHALL, GEORGEU.S. Secretary of State

Mather, DonaldCaptain, SAS, Dover, England

Mavrogordato, PanagiotisCaptain of the freighter Naxos

MaxiSS officer north of Lodz, Poland

McBrideRAF flying officer, Dover, England

Mehier, KarlPanzer loader north of Lodz, Poland

MendelJewish guard, Lodz, Poland

MieczyslawFarmer north of Lodz, Poland

Mikhailov, AntonZek in gulag near Petrozavodsk, USSR

MOLOTOV, VYACHESLAVForeign commissar, USSR

MoriJapanese Army major, west of Peking

Muldoon, HermanU.S. Army sergeant, Chicago

NIEHHO-T’INGGuerrilla leader, Peking

Nussboym, DavidPolitical prisoner in transit

Osborne, AndyGuide near Karval, Colorado

Palchinsky, YuriGuard, GULag near Petrozavodsk, USSR

PATTON, GEORGEU.S. Army lieutenant general near Fall Creek, Illinois

Peterson, RichardT echnician, Metallurgical Laboratory, Denver

Pirogova, TatianaRed Army sniper, Pskov, USSR

RasmussenU.S. Army lieutenant, Chicago

RIBBENTROP, JOACHIM VONGerman foreign minister

RitaMadam, Elgin, Illinois

Roundbush, BasilRAF flight lieutenant, Dover, England

Rudzutak, StepanGang boss in gulag near Petrozavodsk, USSR

Russie, MoisheJewish leader, approaching Palestine

Russie, ReuvenMoishe and Rivka Russie’s son

Russie, RivkaMoishe Russie’s wife

SaulJewish guard, Lodz, Poland

Schultz, GeorgGerman mechanic attached to Red Air Force, Pskov, USSR

SholomPartisan outside Hrubieszow, Poland

SKORZENY, OTTOSS Standartenfuhrer, North of Lodz, Poland

SkriabinNKVD colonel, GULag outside Petrozavodsk, USSR

Smithson, HaywardU.S. Army major, Medical Corps, Karval, Colorado

STALIN, IOSEFGeneral Secretary, Communist Party, USSR

StefarniaPartisan outside Hrubieszow, Poland

STERNJewish guerrilla leader, Jerusalem

Summers, PennyRefugee, Lamar, Colorado