Dewar Family

Dewar Family
The Dewar family is a respected family in Buffalo, America.

Family Members
The Dewar family consists of the following members-

Cameron Dewar
Cameron Dewar is a former US senator from Buffalo. Not much is known about him and he only makes one appearance in the book- Fall of Giants. He is a well respected man and his family is respected.

Ursula Dewar
Ursula Dewar is the wife of Cameron Dewar and the mother of his son, Gus Dewar. She has a dominating presence in the Buffalo social life. She can be proud and snobby at times but wishes the best for her son.

Gus Dewar
Gus Dewar is the son of Cameron Dewar  and his wife Ursula. He is a very bright man but intially is shy and awkward. He is very interested in forming a organisation which consists of the countries of the world. He falls deeply in love with Olga Peshkov, the daughter of Josef Vyalov but their wedding is cancelled due to Olga being pregnant with Lev Peshkov's daughter. He later marries Rosa, whom he falls in love with.

Rosa Dewar
Rosa Dewar is the wife of Gus Dewar and the mother of his sons- Woody and Chuck. She has a sharp wit- one that rivals Gus's. She worked as a reporter before her marriage to Gus Dewar.

Woodrow 'Woody' Dewar
The son of U.S. Senator Gus Dewar and his wife Rosa, and a former friend of Daisy and Greg's. Initially he wished to pursue politics like his father. But later he realizes that politics is not meant for him and becomes a professional photographer..He spends much of the story trying to win the heart of his longtime crush, Joanne Rouzrokh, and eventually does. However, while they are in Hawaii celebrating their engagement, she is killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. After his brother's death, Woody serves in the U.S. Army against the Germans, leading a paratroop platoon on D-Day. He is sent home wounded, and eventually begins a relationship with Bella Hernandez, a young Spanish woman he met while training in Britain.

Bella Dewar
Belle Dewar is the wife of Woody and the mother of his children Cameron and Ursula.

Charles 'Chuck' Dewar
Charles Dewar is the son of Rosa and Gus Dewar and the younger brother of Woodrow. Chuck is a patriotic member of the U.S. Navy, but struggles with his closeted homosexuality (which he later revealed to Woody, and which his mother had already guessed). Chuck is present during the attack on Pearl Harbor and later plays a small but vital role in the Battle of Midway. He is later killed by Japanese machine-gunfire during the landing at Bougainville, trying to protect his lover Eddie Parry.

Cameron 'Cam' Dewar
Cameron 'Cam' Dewar is the son of Woody and Bella Dewar. He is considered the black sheep of the family as he chooses to be a Republican  who joins the Nixon administration, and assists in Nixon's use of illegal espionage techniques. while the rest of the family supports the Democratic party. He works in the CIA. Towards the end of the third book, he marries Lidka, Polish woman.

a conservative student at Berkeley who joins the Nixon administration, and assists in Nixon's use of illegal espionage techniques. He later becomes a CIA agent stationed in Poland.

Lidka Dewar
Lidka is the Polish wife of Cameron. It is unknown whether she married him for his welath or she genuinely had romantic feelings for him. She is shown to be narrow minded.

Ursula 'Beep' Dewar
Ursula is the daughter of Woody and Bella. She is shown to be a hippie and believes in the concept of 'free love'. But after falling pregnant with Dave's child, she matures. She marries Dave and settles down with him.