Prefață ; Cyrus al II-a cel Mare , Sun Tzu , Alexandru cel Mare , Hannibal , Scipio Africanul , Iuliu Cezar , Traian , Decebal , Attila Hunul , Carol cel Mare - Charlemagne , William Cuceritorul , Saladin , Richard I Inimă de Leu , Genghis-Han , Timur Lenk , Mircea cel Bătrân , Iancu de Hunedoara , Ioana dʼ Arc , Ștefan cel Mare , Fernández Gonzalo de Córdoba , Selim I , Francisco Pizzaro , Hernando Cortés , Suleiman I , Vlad Țepeș , Mihai Viteazul , Johann Tserclaes von Tilly , Mauriciu de Nassau , Gustav al II-lea Adolf , Oliver Cromwell , Lennart Torstensson , Henri de La Tour dʼ Auvergne de Turenne , Ludovic al II-lea de Bourbon, Prinț, de Condé , Sébastien de Prestre de Vauban , John Churchill (Duce de Marlborough) , Eugeniu de Savoia , Petru cel Mare , Carol al XII-lea , Hermann Mauriciu Conte de Saxa , Frederic cel Mare ( Frederic al II-lea) , Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval , Aleksandr Vasilievici Suvorov , George Washington , Ralph Abercromby , Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher , Ludovic Alexandre Berthier , Horatio Nelson , Arthur Wellesly , Michel Ney , Napoleon I , José de San Martin , Antoine Henri Jomini , Karl von Clausewitz , Simón Bolivar , Winfield Scott , Saka , Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke , David Glasgow Farragut , Giuseppe Garibalti , Robert Edward Lee , Ulysses Simpson Grant , Garnet Joseph Wolseley , Carol I , Alfred Thayer Mahan , John Arbuthnot Fisher , Heihachiro Togo , Horatio Herbert Kitchener , Ferdinand Foch , Alexandru Averescu , John Joseph Pershing , Edmund Henry H. Allenby , Carl Gustav Emil von Mannerheim , Giulio Douhet , John Frederic Charles Fuller , Douglas MacArthur , George Catlett Marshal , Mustafa Kemal Atatürk , Ion Antonescu , Alan Francis Brook ( Alanbrooke) , Isoroku Yamamoto , Chester Wlliam Nimitz , George S. Patton , H.H. Arnold , Bernard Law Montgomery , Chiang Kai Shek , Heinz Guderian , Adolf Hitler , Dwight David Eisenhower , Kurt Student , Harold Rupert Alexander , Erwin Rommel , Karl Doenitz , Tito , Omar Nelson Bradley , Mao Tzedun , Gheorghi Jukov , Ivan Konev , Vo Nguyen Giap , Moshe Dayan , H. Norman Schwarzkopf.