People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Otozō Yamada 山田乙三 The Imperial Army's final Kwantung Army commander
- Wilhelm Keitel Wilhelm Keitel German general who headed the Wehrmacht High Command and was complicit in Nazi war crimes.
- Kâzım Karabekir Kâzım Karabekir Eastern Front commander of the Turkish War of Independence who invaded Armenia in 1920 and imposed the Treaty of Alexandropol
- Yoshijirō Umezu 梅津美治郎 The army chief caught between imperial command and surrender
- Petre Dumitrescu Petre Dumitrescu Romania's commander on the Eastern Front
- Dušan Simović Душан Симовић The soldier-premier caught between a coup and defeat
- Hugh Dowding Hugh Dowding Architect of integrated radar air defence
- Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz Anti-Soviet partisan commander who moved from Estonia to Belarus, changing camps as he went
- Bertram Ramsay Bertram Home Ramsay The naval commander who organized the Dunkirk evacuation
- Rudolf Lüters Rudolf Lüters Wehrmacht general who directed anti-Partisan operations
- Döme Sztójay Sztójay Döme Soldier-diplomat who pushed for the German alliance in Berlin and, as prime minister under occupation, sped up the Jewish deportations
- Gusztáv Jány Jány Gusztáv Commander of the Hungarian Second Army destroyed on the Don in January 1943
- István Friedrich Friedrich István Factory owner who was prime minister of Hungary for three months after the August 1919 coup against the Peidl government
- Alexandros Papagos Αλέξανδρος Παπάγος The Greek field marshal who staked the war on the Albanian front
- Alan Brooke Alan Francis Brooke Britain's professional head of the army and Allied chief strategist
- Ali Aaltonen Ali Aaltonen Labour journalist and former Russian army officer who became the first commander-in-chief of the Finnish Red Guards
- Isoroku Yamamoto 山本五十六 The admiral who feared war with America yet designed Pearl Harbor
- Hideki Tojo 東條英機 A soldier-statesman who steered imperial Japan from northern ambitions toward southern expansion and war
- Johan Laidoner Johan Laidoner Commander-in-chief of Estonia's war of independence
- Károly Bartha Bartha Károly Defence minister who pressed for joining the invasion of Yugoslavia and the war on the Soviet Union, and harshened labour service
- Franz Halder Franz Halder Chief of the German Army General Staff who planned Barbarossa and later forged the myth of the "clean Wehrmacht"
- İsmet İnönü İsmet İnönü Officer who negotiated the Treaty of Lausanne and succeeded Atatürk as Turkey’s second president
- Yakov Aleksandrovich Slashchov Яков Александрович Слащёв White general who held the Perekop gateway
- Eino Rahja Eino Rahja Petrograd Finnish Bolshevik who helped Lenin escape to Finland in 1917 and sat on the Red Guards’ three-man command in 1918
- Michitarō Komatsubara 小松原道太郎 Imperial Japanese general defeated at Khalkhin Gol
- George S. Patton George Smith Patton Jr. An aggressive commander of mobile warfare and military deception
- Seishirō Itagaki 板垣征四郎 The army strategist who turned a railway pretext into the conquest of Manchuria
- Albert Kesselring Albert Kesselring Nazi field marshal who built the Luftwaffe and directed the defence of Italy
- Chester Nimitz Chester William Nimitz The admiral who reorganized Pacific power through intelligence and mobility
- Kazimierz Sosnkowski Kazimierz Sosnkowski A military leader who shaped Poland's independence struggle and armed forces in exile
- Hermann Hoth Hermann Hoth A German general whose armoured successes were inseparable from crimes on the Eastern Front
- Frank Jack Fletcher Frank Jack Fletcher An operational commander of the carrier age
- Raoul Van Overstraeten Raoul Van Overstraeten A royal military adviser who tested wartime warnings with caution
- Stanislav Čeček Stanislav Čeček Commander of the Czechoslovak Legion in Russia
- Gyula Gömbös Gömbös Gyula Right-radical officer who organised the Szeged National Army and as prime minister in 1932–1936 steered Hungary towards Italy and Germany
- John Gort John Vereker The field marshal who chose withdrawal at Dunkirk
- Raymond A. Spruance Raymond Ames Spruance A cool-headed carrier commander at Midway
- Gotthard Heinrici Gotthard Heinrici The Wehrmacht's defensive specialist on the Eastern Front
- Mitsuru Ushijima 牛島満 Japanese general who directed Okinawa's war of attrition
- Ferenc Szombathelyi Szombathelyi Ferenc Chief of the General Staff who ordered the Bačka intervention behind the Novi Sad massacre and later sought contact with the West
- Heinrich von Vietinghoff Heinrich von Vietinghoff The general who represented Germany's surrender in Italy
- Alexander Vandegrift Alexander Vandegrift The general who defended Guadalcanal and the Marine Corps
- Erich von Manstein Erich von Manstein Nazi Germany's finest operational strategist and the apex of the 'clean Wehrmacht' myth
- Bernard Montgomery Bernard Law Montgomery Commander of the Allied ground forces in Normandy
- Nestor Ivanovich Makhno Нестор Иванович Махно The anarchist peasant commander who fought Bolsheviks, Whites, Germans, and nationalists in succession
- Heinz Guderian Heinz Wilhelm Guderian A leading architect of armoured warfare and a general of Nazi Germany
- Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch Commander of the Waffen-SS IX Mountain Corps who led the German forces in the siege of Budapest and refused to surrender
- Ibrahim Bek Ibrohimbek Laqay Lakai tribal chief who fought for the restoration of the Emir of Bukhara as the leading Basmachi commander in eastern Bukhara
- Kanji Ishiwara 石原莞爾 The theorist who designed Japan's Manchurian expansion
- Jean de Lattre de Tassigny Jean de Lattre de Tassigny The general who defied Vichy and led the Liberation Army