Timeline

1888

October 27 Geigory Peshkov is born

1898

June 22 1898 Billy Williams in born to Cara Williams and David Williams in Aberowen, Wales the same day Tommy Griffiths is born to his parents.

1905

January 22 [Old Style, Jan 9] 1905 Gregori and Lev's mother is killed on Bloody Sunday in St Petersburg, Russia.

1906

(no day given) The "old Earl," Fitz's father, dies.

1910

March 28 1910 Billy Williams and Tommy Griffiths sneak in and look down the mine shaft in Aberwoen. They are deeply scared by what they see.

1911

June 22 1911 Billy Williams goes to work "down the pit" for the first time on the same day George V is crowned

1914

April 20 1914 Gus Dewar wakes President Woodrow Wilson to accept a call from Josephus Daniels, Secretary of State, on which Gus listens in and hears Wilson tell Daniels to prevent the Ypiranga from unloading guns at Vera Cruz, Mexico thus beginning America's de facto involvement in The Great War.

July 29 1914 Walter discusses plans to marry Maud Fitzherbert with his cousin, Robert and Robert's sadness at the prospect of leaving England and breaking off his relationship with Johnny Remark.

July 31 1914 Anton, a spy, meets Walter von Ulrich at the tomb of Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey to tell him Russian in mobilizing.

August 4 1914 Maud Fitzherbert and Walter von Ulrich marry in secret. Ethel Williams in a witness.

June 16, 1919 Maud Fitzherbert and Walter von Ulrich have a wedding photograph taken, 5 years after they marry.

1933

February 27, 1933 Carla von Ulrich goes to work with her mother Maude whose office is later distroyed by the Nazis.

The date of the Reichstag fire.

March 2, 1933 Gestapo member Thomas Macke looks for Walter von Ulrich's name among the 4000 arrested after the Reichstag fire, but instead finds Robert von Ulrich's name in the Vise Establishments file.

March 4 1933 Brownshirts try to interrupt a Social Democrats meeting but are repulsed by Lloyd Williams, Volody Peshkov and Werner Franck, among others.

March 8 1933 Erik von Ulrich returns home from school in a Hitler Youth uniform. That afternoon, Ada Hemel's son, Kurt, is born.

April 1 1933 "Boycott Jews Day" -- Bistro Robert is closed and Robert von Ulrich and Jorg Schleicher are arrested

April 3 1933 Jorn Schleicher is tortured and killed as Robert von Ulrich and Lloyd Williams are forced to watch.

1936

October 3 1936 Daisy Peshkov and George "Boy" Fitzherbert, Viscount Aberowen, marry at St Margaret's church, Westminster.

October 4 1936 Battle of Cablestreet  in Cable Street and Whitechapel in the East End of London, a clash between the Metropolitan Police, sent to protect a march by members of the British Union of Fascists led by Oswald Mosley

1937

August 24, 1937 Lloyd Williams and David Williams see battle for the first time at the Battle of Belchite. Dave is executed for desertion. Lloyd is wounded out.

1939

September 1 1939 Carla von Ulrich is refused a scholarship to study medicine and told to "do her duty" and "marry and have children for Hitler."

1940

May 9 1940 Lloyd Williams confronts his mother Ethel Williams about his parentage and is told his biological father is Earl Fitzherbert

May 13 1940 Eric von Ulrich and Herman Braun see action for the first time at the Second Battle of Sedan.

May 19 1940 Winston Churchill takes over as prime minister from Neville Chammberlain

September 7 1940 Boy Fitzherbert visits his wife Daisy on his first leave in 5 months the same day Germany begins bombing London. When he leaves to "see about a horse," she follows him on a motorcycle and discovers him with his mistresses.

1941

April 4 1941 Kurt Hempel dies, reportedly of appendicitis, but actually executed as "defective."

June 22 1941 German forces launched Operation Barbarossa, the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union. Volodya Pershkov saw a secret communique signed by Hitler with the proposed date of May 15 crossed out and June 22 written in.

June 30 1941 Volody Peshkov accompanies his father Gregori to Stalin's dacha at Kuntseva where they form The State Defense Committee    Gosudarstvennyj komitet oborony, GKO, an extraordinary organ of state power giving complete state power in the country to Stalin.

August 9 1941 Greg Peshkov attends "The "Atlantic Conference" as a low-level aide. This conference led to the "Atlantic Charter" -- a statement of joint goals and principles of the US and UK that later formed the basis for the United Nations.

December 4 1941 Volodya tells the NKVD an order of silence prevents him from discussing his superiors or Stalin, or his opinion of them. There is no such order. He know the NKVD's questioning of soldiers lowers morale.

December 6 1941 Volyda watches the German retreat from the safety of a a building which he and his band of men took from the Germans.

December 6 1941 Chuck Dewar introduces his "pal" (lover) Eddy Parry to his parents, Woody and Joanne Rouzrokh. At dinner, Joanne stands up to Chuck about the wedding guest list, and with Rosa's help, wins.

December 7 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in which Joanne Rouzrokh dies from wounds received trying to escape in a car driven by Chuck Dewar when it is strafed by a Japanese Zero.

1942

January 1 1942 Daisy Fitzherbert (nee Peshkov) gets a letter from Charlie Farquharson asking her to let him take her and her husband to dinner.

January 5 1942 Charlie Farquharson has been shot down over Abbeville.

April 25 1942 Chuck Dewar and Eddie Parry get drunk the day the first American planes bomb Tokyo.

June 3 1942 Chuck Dewar writes to his parents from the Yorktown on his way to the Battle of Midway.

June 28 1942 Date given by Lieutenant Joachim Koch to Maude von Ulrich for "Case Blue." This information eventually reaches Volodya Peshkov in Moscow.

November 1 1942 Greg Peshkov visits Jackey Jakes and learns he is the father of Gregory, age 6.

December 2 1942 Greg Peshkov is present when below the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.

1943

October 18 1943 Voloyda's routine is interrupted by the The Third Moscow Conference between the major Allies of World War II with Cordell Hull and Anthony Eden

November 1 1943 Chuck Dewar dies trying to save Eddie Parry on the first day of the Bougainville Campaign

1944

June 7 1944 "D-Day plus one" Lloyd Leckwith, Legionnaire and Cigare blow up a train near Rouen. An air plane piloted by Boy Fitzherbert helps. Boy dies when the plane is shot down.

July 20 1944 German army officers' plot to kill Hitler fails.

December 25, 1944 Woody Dewar is wounded in the knee during the Battle of the Bulge.

1945

April 12 Woody and Gus Dewar discuss Auschwitz and War Crimes Commission as Harry Truman runs by. Gus (correctly) assumes Roosevelt is dead.

April 16 Eric von Ulrick is awakened by guns on the first day of the Battle of Berlin.

April 17 Werner Franck is brought to Dr. Weiss with his wrist badly crushed.

April 30 Hitler commits suicide.

May 8 Victory in Europe day. Daisy watches the crowds celebrate and hosts a party at her London home.

June 4  Bernie Leckwith tells Lloyd "you don't stand a chance" in the election. Churchill gives a "Gestapo" speech.

July 16 Greg Peshkov witnesses the "Trinity Test" of the atomic bomb

July 26 Lloyd and Daisy go to Hoxton Town Hall to hear the election results. Lloyd is one of the 106 Labor seats taken that day.

August 6 Voloda Peshkov marries Vorotsynstev. Stalin attends and leaves abruptly when given the news (privately) that America had dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

August 15 V-J Day. Jacky Jakes, Gregory, Greg and Lev Peshkov all go to Humbolt Park. Lev makes it obvious that he accepts Gregory as his grandson.

1947

December 25 The pile at the Laboratory 2 of the Academy of Sciences in Russia where Zoya Vorotsynstev Peshkov works goes critical.

1948

March 10 Volodya Peshkov finds Jan Masaryk dead in the court yard of the Foreign Ministry, the victim of murder by the order of Ilya Dvorkin, Volodya's brother-in-law.

June 18 Carla and Werner listen to the announcement on the radio that the deutsche mark is not wht official currency in German.

June 27 Lloyd Williams visits the v Ulrichs the first day after the Berlin Airlift begins.

1949

August 28 Voloyda and Zoya witness "First Lightening" -- the soviet test of a nuclear bomb, the design based on the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, plans stolen by Wilhelm Frunze and passed to Volodya the year before.

December 24 Werner, Ada, Erik,Carla, Rebecca, Walli, and Lili sing Silent Night to Maud's accompaniment. The event ends Winter of the World.

1962

October 16 George Jakes and Dennis Wilson are summoned to an emergency meeting with Bobby Kennedy.

October 24 George Jakes figures out that Maria Summers' lover is JFK.

1964

November 22 Hans Hoffman visits Karolin Koontz to tell her she will not be allowed to emigrate now or ever.

1966

January 20 Date Jasper Murray is to report for induction into the army.