Julian Thompson is a former Falklands War commander turned military historian. He is the author of The 1916 Experience: Verdun and the Somme and The Imperial War Museum Book of War Behind Enemy Lines.

Introduction. Alexander the Great. Hannibal. Scipio Africanus. Julius Caesar. Harald Hardrada. Saladin. King Henry V. Joan of Arc. Sultan Mehmet II. Jean de la Valette. Francis Drake. Queen Elizabeth I of England. Gustavius Adolphus. Oliver Cromwell. Frederick the Great. George Washington. Field Marshal Prince Alexander Suvorov. The Duke of Wellington. Marshal Andre Massena. Napoleon Bonaparte. Admiral Horatio Nelson. General Ulysses S. Grant. Lieutenant General Nathan Forrest. Admiral David Farragut. General Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson. Captain Jean Danjou. Major General George Pickett. Major General George Meade. Marshal Joseph Joffre. General Ferdinand Foch. Marshal Philippe Petain. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig. Captain Lloyd Williams. Sergeant Major Daniel Daly. Emperor Haile Selassie. Winston Churchill. Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham. Adolf Hitler. Admiral William Halsey. Lieutenant Colonel 'Chesty' Puller. General Douglas MacArthur. Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. Major General Orde Wingate. Lieutenant General Nobuo Tanaka. General George S. Patton. Brigadier General Norman Cota. Brigadier James Hill. Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo. Lieutenant General Walton H. Walker. General Norman Schwarzkopf. Lieutenant Colonel Tim Collins. Index.