People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Cafer Seydahmet Cafer Seydamet Crimean Tatar politician who ran the military and foreign affairs of the Crimean People’s Republic and led the national movement in exile
- Tibor Szamuely Szamuely Tibor Communist deputy war commissar of the Hungarian Soviet Republic and a leading figure of its Red Terror
- Alfred Jodl Alfred Jodl An operational architect of Nazi Germany's war
- Ferenc Feketehalmy-Czeydner Feketehalmy-Czeydner Ferenc Hungarian general who directed the Novi Sad massacre, fled to Germany after his conviction and joined the SS
- Béla Miklós Miklós Béla Commander of the Hungarian First Army who went over to the Soviets in October 1944 and headed the provisional government in Debrecen
- John P. Lucas John Porter Lucas The cautious commander of Anzio
- 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
- Géza Lakatos Lakatos Géza General who as prime minister in August–October 1944 halted the Jewish deportations and prepared an armistice until the Arrow Cross coup
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower The five-star general who led D-Day and warned America against the military-industrial complex
- Ahmet-Zaki Validi Әхмәтзәки Вәлиди Leader of the Bashkir national movement who proclaimed Bashkir autonomy, commanded the Bashkir Army and took it over to the Soviet side
- Yevhen Mykhailovych Konovalets Євген Михайлович Коновалець Ukrainian nationalist leader who commanded the Sich Riflemen and built the UVO and OUN
- Tadamichi Kuribayashi 栗林忠道 The Iwo Jima commander who understood American power
- Walter Model Walter Model Hitler's "fireman" who rushed from crisis to crisis on the Eastern Front, the Wehrmacht's most tenacious defensive commander
- Helmuth Weidling Helmuth Weidling The final Berlin commander of a collapsing Reich
- Napoleon Zervas Ναπολέων Ζέρβας A military leader between wartime resistance and anti-communist politics
- Karl Dönitz Karl Dönitz German naval commander of the U-boat fleet who briefly became head of state after Hitler's death.
- Trafford Leigh-Mallory Trafford Leigh-Mallory An air commander who made army cooperation central to Allied air power
- Hjalmar Fridolf Siilasvuo Hjalmar Fridolf Siilasvuo Finnish Jäger lieutenant general who destroyed two Soviet divisions at Suomussalmi with motti tactics
- Radola Gajda Radola Gajda A legion commander who carried battlefield success into White politics
- Francisco Franco Francisco Franco The general who turned the rising into victory and ruled Spain for thirty-six years as Caudillo
- Keith Rodney Park Keith Rodney Park The air-defence commander at the heart of the Battle of Britain
- Arthur Harris Arthur Travers Harris The air commander who made strategic bombing central to total war
- Sükhbaatar Сүхбаатар Military leader of Mongolia's 1921 revolution, posthumously canonized as its 'father'
- Draža Mihailović Драгољуб Михаиловић A Serbian nationalist commander who sought to restore the monarchy
- Hermann Göring Hermann Göring A Luftwaffe chief who organized Nazi war and plunder
- Segismundo Casado Segismundo Casado The Republican general who overthrew Negrín to negotiate peace with Franco, and got only unconditional surrender
- 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
- Giuseppe Castellano Giuseppe Castellano The general who signed an incomplete transition
- Omar Nelson Bradley Omar Nelson Bradley The U.S. Army commander who led the Normandy campaign
- Hans von Manteuffel-Szoege Hans Freiherr von Manteuffel-Szoege Baltic Landeswehr strike-troop commander who led the Liepāja coup and fell at Riga
- Dietrich von Hugo Hermann Choltitz Dietrich von Choltitz The German general who surrendered Paris rather than destroy it
- Vicente Rojo Vicente Rojo Lluch The Catholic general who defended the Republic
- Augusto César Sandino Augusto César Sandino Pan-Latin American anti-imperialist hero who waged guerrilla war against US occupation of Nicaragua
- Stefan Rowecki Stefan Paweł Rowecki An underground commander who grasped Tempest's political conditions
- Oskar Dirlewanger Oskar Dirlewanger SS special-unit commander implicated in the Wola massacre
- Antoni None Chruściel Antoni Chruściel The Home Army commander who organized and launched the uprising
- Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski The Home Army commander whose decision led to both the uprising and its surrender
- Kazys Škirpa Kazys Škirpa Lithuanian officer and envoy in Berlin who founded the Lithuanian Activist Front behind the June Uprising of 1941
- Mark W. Clark Mark W. Clark An Allied commander caught between military gains and civilian cost
- Ferenc Szálasi Szálasi Ferenc Arrow Cross leader installed by Germany as 'Leader of the Nation' in 1944
- Paavo Talvela Paavo Talvela Mannerheim's secret envoy to Berlin who brokered the German-Finnish military pact that led to the Continuation War
- Cipriano Mera Cipriano Mera Sanz The anarchist IV Army Corps commander who saved Casado's Madrid coup from Communist counter-attack
- Otto Braun Otto Braun “Li De”, the only Westerner on the Long March and the Comintern military adviser blamed at Zunyi
- Žanis Lipke Žanis Lipke Riga docker who used his contract work for the Luftwaffe to smuggle dozens of Jews out of the ghetto and camps and hide them
- Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque Free French armoured commander
- Masanobu Tsuji 辻政信 The Kwantung Army staff officer whose Border Defense Guide sparked the Nomonhan Incident
- Kim Chaek 김책 Korean revolutionary military leader who fought alongside Kim Il Sung in the Manchurian anti-Japanese guerrillas