People of the Revolution and the USSR
- 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"
- 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
- 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
- Heinz Guderian Heinz Wilhelm Guderian A leading architect of armoured warfare and a general of Nazi Germany
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Béla Imrédy Imrédy Béla Prime minister who swung Hungary towards Germany and drafted the Second Jewish Law, then fell over his own Jewish ancestry
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- Ronald Scobie Ronald MacKenzie Scobie The British general who commanded the Battle of Athens
- Konstantinos Maniadakis Κωνσταντίνος Μανιαδάκης Architect of the dictatorship's security apparatus
- 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
- 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
- László Endre Endre László Interior Ministry state secretary who in 1944 ran the ghettoisation and deportation of Hungary’s Jews with László Baky
- Antoni None Chruściel Antoni Chruściel The Home Army commander who organized and launched the uprising