People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Mullanur Vakhitov Мулланур Вахитов Tatar revolutionary who led the Kazan Muslim Socialist Committee and became the first head of the Soviet Muslim Commissariat
- Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze Михаил Васильевич Фрунзе Civil War front commander and Red Army reformer
- Yakov Aleksandrovich Slashchov Яков Александрович Слащёв White general who held the Perekop gateway
- Eino Rahja Eino Rahja Petrograd Finnish Bolshevik who helped Lenin escape to Finland in 1917 and sat on the Red Guards’ three-man command in 1918
- Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko Николай Васильевич Крыленко Architect of revolutionary legal consciousness, consumed by the Great Terror
- Michitarō Komatsubara 小松原道太郎 Imperial Japanese general defeated at Khalkhin Gol
- George S. Patton George Smith Patton Jr. An aggressive commander of mobile warfare and military deception
- Seishirō Itagaki 板垣征四郎 The army strategist who turned a railway pretext into the conquest of Manchuria
- Yefim Afanasievich Shchadenko Ефим Афанасьевич Щаденко From 1st Cavalry Army commissar to the purge's personnel executioner
- Albert Kesselring Albert Kesselring Nazi field marshal who built the Luftwaffe and directed the defence of Italy
- Chester Nimitz Chester William Nimitz The admiral who reorganized Pacific power through intelligence and mobility
- 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
- Frank Jack Fletcher Frank Jack Fletcher An operational commander of the carrier age
- Raoul Van Overstraeten Raoul Van Overstraeten A royal military adviser who tested wartime warnings with caution
- Alexander Yakovlevich Parkhomenko Александр Яковлевич Пархоменко Civil War commander who helped defend Tsaritsyn and establish Soviet power in Ukraine
- Roman Fyodorovich von Ungern-Sternberg Роман Фёдорович фон Унгерн-Штернберг The White Army warlord who liberated Mongolia and dreamed of reviving the empire of Genghis Khan
- 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
- John Gort John Vereker The field marshal who chose withdrawal at Dunkirk
- Masaomi Yasuoka 安岡正臣 The Japanese general whose armored command exposed the limits of Japan's tank doctrine
- Ferenc Münnich Münnich Ferenc Hungarian communist who backed Soviet intervention with Kádár in 1956 and became prime minister after the revolution was crushed
- Raymond A. Spruance Raymond Ames Spruance A cool-headed carrier commander at Midway
- Gotthard Heinrici Gotthard Heinrici The Wehrmacht's defensive specialist on the Eastern Front
- Zhu De 朱德 Founder of the Chinese Red Army and the PLA, first among the Ten Marshals
- Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev Василий Иванович Чапаев Legendary Civil War commander who became a Soviet folk hero through film and folklore
- Georgy Vasilievich Zinoviev Георгий Васильевич Зиновьев A Red Army commander shaped by the air war
- August Ivanovich Kork Август Иванович Корк Imperial staff officer who rose to the top of the Red Army command
- Mitsuru Ushijima 牛島満 Japanese general who directed Okinawa's war of attrition
- Ferenc Szombathelyi Szombathelyi Ferenc Chief of the General Staff who ordered the Bačka intervention behind the Novi Sad massacre and later sought contact with the West
- Heinrich von Vietinghoff Heinrich von Vietinghoff The general who represented Germany's surrender in Italy
- Sydir Artemovych Kovpak Сидор Артемьевич Ковпак The Soviet Union's greatest partisan commander, who raided all the way to the Carpathians
- Alexander Vandegrift Alexander Vandegrift The general who defended Guadalcanal and the Marine Corps
- Erich von Manstein Erich von Manstein Nazi Germany's finest operational strategist and the apex of the 'clean Wehrmacht' myth
- Bernard Montgomery Bernard Law Montgomery Commander of the Allied ground forces in Normandy
- Nestor Ivanovich Makhno Нестор Иванович Махно The anarchist peasant commander who fought Bolsheviks, Whites, Germans, and nationalists in succession
- Sergei Vitalyevich Mrachkovsky Сергей Витальевич Мрачковский The Red commander of the Urals
- Heinz Guderian Heinz Wilhelm Guderian A leading architect of armoured warfare and a general of Nazi Germany
- Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch Commander of the Waffen-SS IX Mountain Corps who led the German forces in the siege of Budapest and refused to surrender
- 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
- Konstantin Aleksandrovich Mekhonoshin Константин Александрович Мехоношин The quiet architect of the Red Army who confronted Stalin at Tsaritsyn as Trotsky's man
- Pavel Yefimovich Dybenko Павел Ефимович Дыбенко The first People's Commissar for Naval Affairs, whose Baltic sailors tipped the scales in October 1917
- Yan Karlovich Berzin Jānis Ян Карлович Берзин Bērziņš The Latvian Bolshevik who built Soviet military intelligence and was consumed by the purges
- 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
- Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis Лев Захарович Мехлис From Stalin's personal secretary to the Red Army's purge enforcer, nicknamed 'the Inquisitor of the Red Army'
- 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
- 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
- Grigory Isaakovich Chudnovsky Григорий Исаакович Чудновский MRC commissar who twice entered the Winter Palace to parley and talked its defenders into walking away
- Tibor Szamuely Szamuely Tibor Communist deputy war commissar of the Hungarian Soviet Republic and a leading figure of its Red Terror