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

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)

Russia

Joseph Stalin: Premier of the Soviet Union

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