in multiple places. Clarence Lawson, a colleague of Guy's in Bucharest. An embittered cynic and moper, he is employed by the British propaganda bureau and on relief to Polish refugees. Sophie, an attractive intelligent Jewish admirer of Guy who is seeking a British passport, and had hopes of acquiring one by marrying Guy. Dubedat, an English elementary school teacher and bohemian pacifist 'simple lifer', who was hitchhiking his way around the Balkans when war broke out. Working class and a scouser. David Boyd, a part-time lecturer and an expert on Romanian history and politics employed by the British Embassy. He is a close friend and a Marxist political ally of Guy. Klein, a Jewish economist refugee. He has found temporary employment as an advisor to the Romanian government and is a source of news of its intrigues. Foxy Leverett, a diplomat who is also working for the British secret service. He is murdered by the fascist Iron Guard in Bucharest. Bernard Dugdale, an English diplomat who passes through Bucharest on his way to Ankara. Sasha Drucker, a Jewish fugitive, the son of a wealthy banking family. Professor Inchcape, an academic attached to the British Council. Bella Niculescu, a friend of Harriet's. A wealthy British expatriate who has married a Bucharest native, Nikko. Professor Lord Pinkrose, a visiting lecturer, based on the real life Edward Plunkett, Lord Dunsany Toby Lush, an English teacher looking for work. Edwina Little, a beautiful young woman who shares a Cairo flat with Dobson and the Pringles. Charles Warden, a young officer who befriends Harriet in Athens. Simon Boulderstone, a young officer who encounters Harriet on first arriving in Egypt, and who is wounded at the Second Battle of El Alamein. Lady Angela Hooper, a wealthy woman initially married to a nobleman. Aiden Pratt, a successful pre-war West End stage actor, now conscripted into the pay corps in Damascus, who befriends Guy and Harriet. Bill Castlebar, an occasional poet and lecturer and lover of Angela Hooper. Mortimer, a woman serving in the British army assigned to drive supply trucks from Egypt to Syria. Major Lister, a British army officer stationed in Jerusalem. A stout, depressed melancholic. Reception Anthony Burgess described Fortunes of War as "the finest fictional record of the war produced by a British writer". He considered the first three volumes to be "probably the most important long work of fiction written by a woman