Foreword / William Hague
Introduction / Major-General Michael Tillotson
Wellington, Strategist and inspirational commander-in-chief, 15th September 1852
Raglan, British Commander-in-Chief in the Crimea, 2 July 1855
Grant, Master strategist of the Union Army, 24 July 1885
Lee, American soldier: 'one of the noblest soldiers who have ever drawn a sword in a cause which they believed just.', 12 October 1870
Garibaldi, Italian Patriot and Soldier of Fortune, 3 and 5 June 1882
Sitting Bull, Chief of the Prairie Sioux, 17 December 1890
Moltke, 'Organizer of victory', 25 and 27 April 1891
MacMahon, Descendant of a distinguished Irish family in the service of France, 18 October 1893
Cetywayo, Cetywayo, King of the Zulus, 11 February 1884
Togo, Japan's Nelson, 30 May 1934
Roberts, 'He May be tiny, but he's wise, He's a terror for his size', 15 November 1914
Hindenburg, 'Father Of The Fatherland', 3 August 1934
Ludendorff, Hindenburg's right hand man and confidant in the First World War, 21 December 1937
Fisher, Father Of The Modern Battle-Fleet 12 July, 1920
Foch, The Soul Of Victory, 21 March 1929
Haig, Master of the Field, 31 January 1928
Jellicoe, 'The only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon', 21 November 1935
Beatty, A Great Sea Commander, 11 March 1936
Scheer, High Seas Fleet Commander, 27 November 1928
Atatürk, Maker of Modern Turkey. Soldier, Organizer and Administrator, 11 November 1938
Allenby, Great Soldier and Administrator, 15 May 1936
Trenchard, Father of the Royal Air Force, 11 February 1956
Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland, patriot and statesman, 29 January 1951
Rundstedt, Orthodox strategist and father figure of the German officer corps., 25 February 1953
Guderian, Germany's dynamic panzer commander of the Second World War, 17 May 1954
Wavell, Soldier and Man of Letters, 25th May 1950


Alanbrooke, One of the greatest soldiers of his generation, 18 June 1963
Auchinleck, Architect of a defensive strategy that led to victory in the desert, 25 March 1981
Cunningham, The greatest Royal Navy commander of the Second World War, 13 June 1963
Horton, An Architect of victory in the Battle of the Atlantic, 9 August, 1951
Dönitz, Architect of German wartime U-boat strategy, 27 December 1980
Rommel, A masterly tactician and aggressive exploiter of success, 16 October 1944
Montgomery, Victor of El Alamein and a legend in his own lifetime, 25 March 1976
Eisenhower, Modern America's soldier statesman, 29 March 1969
Patton, Brilliant American War Leader, 22 December 1945
Kesselring, One of Germany's most accomplished commanders in the Second World War, 18 July 1960
MacArthur, Brilliant soldier and controversial strategist, 6 April 1964
Nimitz, The Mastering of Japanese Sea Power, 22 February 1966
Manstein, An outstanding German soldier 13 June 1973
Rokossovsky, Master of the Counter-Offensive, 5 August 1968
Zhukov, Leader of the Soviet Attack on Germany, 20th June 1974
Dowding, Victor of the Battle of Britain, 16 February 1970
Galland, The Luftwaffe's Fighter Commander, 14 February 1996
Harris, Executant of strategic air offensive against Germany, 7 April 1984
Slim, Soldier of indomitable spirit who defeated the Japanese, 15 December 1970
Wingate, Guerrilla Operations in Burma, 1st April 1944
Ridgway, United Nations Supreme Commander in Korea, 27 July 1993
Gorshkov, Mastermind of global Soviet seapower, 16 May 1988
Walker, Fighting General of uncompromising methods 14 August 2001
Fieldhouse, Falklands Conflict Commander-in-Chief, 18 February 1992.