People of the Revolution and the USSR
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Edward Mallory Almond Edward Mallory Almond A U.S. general whose offensive command was bound to racial prejudice
- 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
- Oliver P. Smith Oliver Prince Smith A Marine commander whose caution helped save a surrounded division
- 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
- 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
- Fyodor Ivanovich Trukhin Фёдор Иванович Трухин A staff general who turned from Soviet command to an anti-Soviet armed organisation
- 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
- Raoul Salan Raoul Salan French commander in the First Indochina War and leader of the OAS.
- Masanobu Tsuji 辻政信 The Kwantung Army staff officer whose Border Defense Guide sparked the Nomonhan Incident
- Christian de Castries Christian de Castries French general who commanded the Điện Biên Phủ fortress in 1954 and was captured when it fell
- Heinz Reinefarth Heinz Reinefarth The SS general who commanded the repression of the Warsaw Uprising
- Curtis E. LeMay Curtis LeMay The Air Force general who firebombed Japan and urged nuclear war on his adversaries
- Otto Skorzeny Otto Skorzeny A Nazi commando leader magnified by propaganda
- Béla Király Király Béla The general and contested witness of 1956
- Nol Lon លន់ នល់ Cambodian military officer and politician who led the Khmer Republic as prime minister and president
- William Westmoreland William Westmoreland US Army general who commanded American forces in South Vietnam from 1964 to 1968 and pursued a strategy of attrition measured by body count
- Chae Byeong-deok 채병덕 A general whose colonial military career met failure at the war’s outbreak