Striking the Balance

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Authors: Harry Turtledove

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DRAMATIS PERSONAE

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

HUMANS

A
NIELEWICZ
, M
ORDECHAI
 
Jewish fighting leader, Lodz, Poland
Apfelbaum, Moisei
 
Colonel Skriabin’s clerk,
gulag
near Petrozavodsk, USSR
Auerbach, Rance
 
U.S. Army cavalry captain, Lamar, Colorado
Avram
 
Partisan near Hrubieszów, Poland
Bagnall, George
 
Flight engineer, Pskov, USSR
Beck
 
Wehrmacht
captain, Riga, Latvia
B
EGIN
, M
ENACHEM
 
Jewish guerrilla, Haifa, Palestine
Birkenfeld; Oskar
 
Jewish Order Service policeman Lodz, Poland
Boleslaw
 
Pole in Lodz, Poland
Borcke, Martin
 
Wehrmacht
captain, Pskov, USSR
B
RADLEY
,
OMAR
 
U.S. Army lieutenant general, outside Denver
B
ROCKDORFF
-A
HLEFELDT
, W
ALTER VON
 
Wehrmacht
lieutenant general, Riga, Latvia
Casimir
 
Partisan leader outside Hrubieszów, Poland
Chaim
 
Jewish guard, Lodz, Poland
C
HILL
, K
URT
 
Wehrmacht
lieutenant general, Pskov, USSR
Daniels, Peter (“Mutt”)
 
U.S. Army second lieutenant, Chicago
Dölger, Hans
 
Wehrmacht
captain and adjutant, Pskov, USSR
D
ONOVAN
, W
ILLIA
M (“W
ILD
B
ILL
”)
 
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
E
DEN
, A
NTHONY
 
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
G
ERMAN
, A
LEKSANDR
 
Partisan brigadier, Pskov, USSR
G
ODDARD
, R
OBERT
 
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
G
ROVES
, L
ESLIE
 
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
H
ULL
, C
ORDELL
 
President of the United States
Ignacy
 
Partisan leader outside Warsaw
Irma
 
Waitress, Lamar, Colorado
Jäger, 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
K
URCHATOV
, I
GOR
 
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
M
AO
T
SE
-T
UNG
 
Communist Party leader, Peking
Marchenko
 
NKVD captain,
gulag
outside Petrozavodsk, USSR
M
ARSHALL
, G
EORGE
 
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 in
gulag
near Petrozavodsk, USSR
M
OLOTOV
, V
YACHESLAV
 
Foreign commissar, USSR
Mori
 
Japanese Army major, west of Peking
Muldoon, Herman
 
U.S. Army sergeant, Chicago
N
IEH
H
O
-T’
ING
 
Guerrilla leader, Peking
Nussboym, David
 
Political prisoner in transit
Osborne, Andy
 
Guide near Karval, Colorado
Palchinsky, Yuri
 
Guard,
gulag
near Petrozavodsk, USSR
P
ATTON
, G
EORGE
 
U.S. Army lieutenant general near Fall Creek, Illinois
Peterson, Richard
 
Technician, Metallurgical Laboratory, Denver
Pirogova, Tatiana
 
Red Army sniper, Pskov, USSR
Rasmussen
 
U.S. Army lieutenant, Chicago
R
IBBENTROP
, J
OACHIM VON
 
German foreign minister
Rita
 
Madam, Elgin, Illinois
Roundbush, Basil
 
RAF flight lieutenant, Dover, England
Rudzutak, Stepan
 
Gang boss in
gulag
near 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 Hrubieszów, Poland
S
KORZENY
, O
TTO
 
SS Standartenführer, North of Lodz, Poland
Skriabin
 
NKVD colonel,
gulag
outside Petrozavodsk, USSR
Smithson, Hayward
 
U.S. Army major, Medical Corps, Karval, Colorado
S
TALIN
, I
OSEF
 
General Secretary, Communist Party, USSR
Stefarnia
 
Partisan outside Hrubieszów, Poland
S
TERN
 
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
T
OGO
, S
HIGENORI
 
Japanese foreign minister
V
ASILIEV
, N
IKOLAI
 
Partisan brigadier, Pskov, USSR
Witold
 
Blacksmith, Hrubieszów Poland
Wladeslaw
 
Partisan near Hrubieszów, Poland
Yeager, Barbara
 
Sam Yeager’s wife
Yeager, Jonathan
 
Sam and Barbara Yeager’s son
Yeager, Sam
 
U.S. Army sergeant, Hot Springs, Arkansas
Yitzkhak
 
Jew in Lodz Poland
Zelkowitz, Leon
 
Jewish fighter, Lodz, Poland
 
 
 
THE RACE
 
 
Aaatos
 
Intelligence operative, Florida
Atvar
 
Fleetlord, conquest fleet of the Race
Bunim
 
Regional subadministrator, Lodz, Poland
Chook
 
Small-unit group leader near Fall Creek, Illinois
Essaff
 
Guard and interpreter, Peking
Fsseffel
 
Headmale, Race Barracks One,
gulag
near Petrozavodsk, USSR
Gazzim
 
Prisoner and interpreter, Moscow
Kirel
 
Shiplord,
127th Emperor Hetto
Mzepps
 
Prisoner, Dover, England
Nikeaa
 
Infantry officer outside Pskov, USSR
Oyyag
 
Prisoner,
gulag
near Petrozavodsk, USSR
Ppevel
 
Assistant administrator, eastern region, main continental mass, Peking

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