KEY PLAYERS
United States
Creighton Abrams: Lieutenant colonel, commander of U.S. Thirty-Seventh Tank Battalion, Fourth Armored Division
Charles Boggess: First lieutenant, U.S. Thirty-Seventh Tank Battalion
Omar Bradley: Lieutenant general, commander of U.S. Twelfth Army Group, which includes Third Army
Charles Codman: Colonel, General Patton’s aide-de-camp
Jacob Devers: Lieutenant general, commander of the U.S. Sixth Army Group
Benjamin Dickson: Colonel, U.S. First Army intelligence chief (G-2)
Dwight D. Eisenhower: General, supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe
Hugh Gaffey: Major general, commander of U.S. Fourth Armored Division, Third Army
Paul Harkins: Colonel, General Patton’s deputy chief of staff
Joseph Harper: Colonel, commander of U.S. 327th Glider Infantry Regiment
Courtney Hodges: Lieutenant general, commander of U.S. First Army
Harry Kinnard: Lieutenant colonel, U.S. 101st Airborne Division operations officer
Oscar Koch: Colonel, U.S. Third Army intelligence chief (G-2)
George Marshall: General, chief of staff of the U.S. Army
Anthony McAuliffe: Brigadier general, acting commander of U.S. 101st Airborne Division
Troy Middleton: Lieutenant general, commander of U.S. Eighth Corps, Third Army
John Mims: Sergeant, General Patton’s driver
Ned Moore: Lieutenant colonel, General McAuliffe’s chief of staff
Beatrice Patton: George Patton’s wife
George S. Patton: General, commander of U.S. Third Army
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: President of the United States of America
Omar Bradley
Dwight E. Eisenhower
Oscar Koch
George Marshall
Anthony McAuliffe
George S. Patton
Britain
Winston Churchill: Prime minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Bernard Montgomery: British field marshal, commander of Twenty-First Army Group, which included British and Canadian forces
Kenneth Strong: British major general, General Eisenhower’s intelligence chief (G-2)
Winston Churchill
Bernard Montgomery
Russia
Joseph Stalin: Premier of the Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin
Germany
Martin Bormann: Head of Nazi Party Chancellery
Eva Braun: Hitler’s mistress, then wife
Joseph Goebbels: Reich minister of propaganda
Heinrich Himmler: Reichsführer of the SS
Adolf Hitler: Führer of Germany and leader of the Nazi Party
Traudl Junge: one of Hitler’s secretaries
Wilhelm Keitel: Field marshal, Hitler’s commander of the armed forces
Heinrich Lüttwitz: General, commander of German panzer troops surrounding Bastogne
Theodor Morell: Hitler’s personal doctor
Joachim Peiper: German SS commander, First SS Panzer Division
Erwin Rommel: German field marshal
Christa Schroeder: one of Hitler’s secretaries
Otto Skorzeny: German SS officer
Albert Speer: Hitler’s minister of armaments
Gerd von Rundstedt: German field marshal, western front
Walther Wenck: General, German Twelfth Army
Martin Bormann
Eva Braun
Heinrich Himmler
Adolf Hitler
Wilhelm Keitel
Erwin Rommel