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War seethed across the planet. Machines soared through the air, churned through the seas, crawled across the surface, pushing ever forward, carrying death. Earth was engaged in a titanic struggle. Germany, Russia, France, China, Japan: the maps were changing day by day. The hostilities spread in ever-widening ripples of destruction: Britain, Italy, Africa… the fate of the world hung in the balance. Then the real enemy came. Out of the dark of night, out of the soft glow of dawn, out of the clear blue sky came an invasion force the likes of which Earth had never known-and worldwar was truly joined. The invaders were inhuman and they were unstoppable. Their technology was far beyond our reach, and their goal was simple. Fleetlord Atvar had arrived to claim Earth for the Empire. Never before had Earth's people been more divided. Never had the need for unity been greater. And grudgingly, inexpertly, humanity took up the challenge. In this epic novel of alternate history, Harry Turtledove takes us around the globe. We roll with German panzers; watch the coast of Britain with the RAF; and welcome alien-liberators to the Warsaw ghetto. In tiny planes we skim the vast Russian steppe, and we push the envelope of technology in secret labs at the University of Chicago. Turtledove's saga covers all the Earth, and beyond, as mankind-in all its folly and glory-faces the ultimate threat; and a turning point in history shows us a past that never was and a future that could yet come to be…

Гарри Тертлдав

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<p>Harry Turtledove</p><empty-line></empty-line><p>In the Balance</p><empty-line></empty-line><p>(Worldwar-1)</p><p>DRAMATIS PERSONAE</p>

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

HUMANS

Aloysius captive in Fiat, Indiana

ANIELEWICZ, MORDECHAI guerrilla leader in the Warsaw ghetto

Arenswald, Michael engineer Heavy Artillery Battalion Dora

Bagnall, George flight engineer in RAF bomber crew

Bauer, Klaus hull gunner in Heinrich Jager’s tank

Becker, Karl engineer Heavy Artillery Battalion Dora

Bell, Douglas bomb-aimer in RAF bomber crew

BOR-KOMOROWSKI, TADEUSZ general, Polish Home Army

Brodsky, Nathan Jewish laborer at Warsaw airport

Burkett, Dr. biology professor at University of Chicago.

Chase, Otto cement plant worker at Dixon, Illinois

CHURCHILL, WINSTON prime minister of Great Britain

Collins, Colonel U.S. Army officer

COMPTON, ARTHUR supervisor, University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory

Daniels Pete “Mutt” manager, Decatur Commodores (I–I-I League)

Daphne barmaid at the White Horse Inn, Dover, England.

David child of Jewish fighter, Warsaw

Doi, Colonel Japanese interrogator of Teerts

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

Finkelstein, Sam doctor

Fiore, Bobby second baseman, Decatur Commodores (I–I-I League)

Fuchs, Stefan loader in Heinrich Jager’s tank

Goldfarb, David RAF radarman in Dover England

Gorbunova, Ludmila Red Air Force pilot

Gordon captive in Fiat, Indiana

GROVES, LESLIE U.S. Army colonel

HITLER, ADOLF German Fuhrer

Hocker, Maximilian lieutenant colonel, German Army, Paris

HULL, CORDELL U.S. secretary of state

Jacobi, Nathan BBC newsreader

Jager, Heinrich major Sixteenth Panzer Division

Jones, Jerome RAF radarman in Dover England

Karpov, Feofan Red Air Force colonel

Kasherina, Yevdokia Red Air Force pilot

Kobayashi, Lieutenant-Colonel Japanese interrogator of Teerts

Kraniinov, Viktor Red Army lieutenant colonel in Moscow

Lane, Edward “Ted” radioman in RI4F bomber crew

Larssen, Barbara graduate student in medieval literature; Jens’ wife

Larssen, Jens nuclear physicist, University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory

Leah Jewish fighter in Warsaw

Lejb Jew in Hrubieszow, Poland

Lidov, Boris NKVD lieutenant colonel, Moscow

Liu Han Chinese peasant woman

Marie captive in Fiat, Indiana

MARSHALL, GEORGE U.S. Army Chief of Staff

Max Jew who survived Babi Yar; Soviet partisan

MOLOTOV, VYACHESLAV foreign commissar of the USSR

Okamoto, Major Japanese interpreter and interrogator of Teerts

Old Sun tailor in China

PATTON, GEORGE U.S. Army major general

Pavlyuchenko, Kliment kolkhoz (collective farm) headman in the Ukraine

Popova, Yelena Red Air Force major

RIBBENTROP, JOACHIM VON German foreign minister

Riecke, Ernst captain, Sixteenth Panzer Division

Risberg, Buck soldier in Aurora, illinois

Rodney captive in Fiat, Indiana

Russie, Moishe ex-medical student in the Warsaw ghetto

Russie, Reuven Moishe Russie ‘s son

Russie, Rivka Moishe Russie’s wife

Sal captive in Fiat, Indiana

Sanders, Charlie black man feeding soldiers in Naperville, Illinois

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