People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Richard Howe Richard Howe British admiral who won the battle of 1 June 1794
- Horatio Nelson Horatio Nelson Royal Navy admiral who destroyed the French fleet at the Nile
- Reginald Dyer Reginald Dyer British Indian Army officer who ordered troops to fire on an unarmed crowd at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar in 1919
- Lionel Dunsterville Lionel Charles Dunsterville British general who led Dunsterforce across Persia to defend Baku in 1918
- Reginald Drax Reginald Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax A naval reformer sent to negotiate without authority
- Hugh Dowding Hugh Dowding Architect of integrated radar air defence
- Bertram Ramsay Bertram Home Ramsay The naval commander who organized the Dunkirk evacuation
- Alan Brooke Alan Francis Brooke Britain's professional head of the army and Allied chief strategist
- John Gort John Vereker The field marshal who chose withdrawal at Dunkirk
- Bernard Montgomery Bernard Law Montgomery Commander of the Allied ground forces in Normandy
- Trafford Leigh-Mallory Trafford Leigh-Mallory An air commander who made army cooperation central to Allied air power
- Arthur Harris Arthur Travers Harris The air commander who made strategic bombing central to total war
- Ronald Scobie Ronald MacKenzie Scobie The British general who commanded the Battle of Athens
- William Sholto Douglas William Sholto Douglas The RAF commander who turned Fighter Command from defence toward offence
- Edmund Myers Edmund Myers A British engineer officer drawn into Greek resistance politics
- Christopher Montague Woodhouse Christopher Montague Woodhouse A Greece expert at the boundary of resistance and empire