People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Henrik Werth Werth Henrik Chief of the Hungarian General Staff who was the strongest advocate of alliance with Germany and of war on the Soviet Union
- Maximilian von Weichs Maximilian von Weichs German field marshal who commanded the Stalingrad offensive
- Otozō Yamada 山田乙三 The Imperial Army's final Kwantung Army commander
- Ion Antonescu Ion Antonescu The Conducător who took Romania into the Axis war against the Soviet Union and ordered the killings in Transnistria, executed at Jilava in 1946
- Wilhelm Keitel Wilhelm Keitel German general who headed the Wehrmacht High Command and was complicit in Nazi war crimes.
- 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
- Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz Anti-Soviet partisan commander who moved from Estonia to Belarus, changing camps as he went
- Benito Mussolini Benito Mussolini The dictator who turned fascism into state power
- 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
- Isoroku Yamamoto 山本五十六 The admiral who feared war with America yet designed Pearl Harbor
- Gyula Ostenburg-Moravek Ostenburg-Moravek Gyula Gendarmerie officer whose detachment murdered two Népszava journalists and who joined King Charles’s 1921 return attempt
- Hideki Tojo 東條英機 A soldier-statesman who steered imperial Japan from northern ambitions toward southern expansion and war
- 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"
- Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman The 33rd president who framed the Cold War with the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
- Petr Zenkl Petr Zenkl National Socialist leader who led the ministers’ resignation in February 1948 and headed the exile Council of Free Czechoslovakia
- Michitarō Komatsubara 小松原道太郎 Imperial Japanese general defeated at Khalkhin Gol
- François de La Rocque François de La Rocque The colonel of the Croix-de-Feu who turned his columns away from the Chamber
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Kálmán Darányi Darányi Kálmán Gömbös’s successor as prime minister in 1936–1938, who announced the Győr programme and introduced the First Jewish Law
- Masaomi Yasuoka 安岡正臣 The Japanese general whose armored command exposed the limits of Japan's tank doctrine
- 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
- Heinrich von Vietinghoff Heinrich von Vietinghoff The general who represented Germany's surrender in Italy
- Pierre Taittinger Pierre Taittinger The deputy who founded the Jeunesses Patriotes, holding a street force and a seat in the Chamber at once
- Erich von Manstein Erich von Manstein Nazi Germany's finest operational strategist and the apex of the 'clean Wehrmacht' myth
- Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石 Nationalist leader who combined resistance to Japan with anti-communist rule
- Heinz Guderian Heinz Wilhelm Guderian A leading architect of armoured warfare and a general of Nazi Germany
- John Foster Dulles John Foster Dulles An American diplomat who drove the Cold War through alliance-building
- 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
- Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler Dictator who built a racist war state
- 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
- Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu Carmelite friar and Free French admiral whose Republic of Cochinchina as High Commissioner opened the road to war
- Alfred Jodl Alfred Jodl An operational architect of Nazi Germany's war
- László Bárdossy Bárdossy László Wartime prime minister who declared war on the Soviet Union over the Kassa bombing and approved the deportation of Jews
- Iván Héjjas Héjjas Iván White Terror commander whose detachment around Kecskemét carried out the Orgovány killings and the Izsák pogrom
- Friedrich Paulus Friedrich Paulus A field commander undone by the collision of orders and reality
- Erik Heinrichs Axel Erik Heinrichs A Finnish general at the boundary of war and diplomacy
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower The five-star general who led D-Day and warned America against the military-industrial complex