Striking the Balance
Contents
Author’s Notes and Acknowledgements
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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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