- Preface Brian Harrison
- Military Lives—selections from the DNB: Introduction Hew Strachan
- Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander (1891-1969) David Hunt
- Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby (1861-1936) Cyril Falls
- Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck (1884-1981) Brian Bond
- Sir Reginald Hugh Spencer Bacon (1963-1947) Vincent W. Baddeley
- Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader (1910-1982) P. B. Lucas
- Albert Ball (1896-1917) Henry Albert Jones
- David Beatty (1871-1936) W. S. Chalmers
- Lord Charles William de la Poer Beresford (1846-1919) Vincent W. Baddeley
- Reginald Baliol Brett (Lord Esher) (1852-1930) C. Harris
- Alan Francis Brooke (1883-1963) D. W. Fraser
- Neil Cameron (1920-1985) Henry A. Probert
- Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart (1880-1963) E. T. Williams
- Edith Cavell (1865-1915) Benedict William Ginsburg
- Sir Arthur Coningham (1895-1948) T. W. Elmhirst
- Sir Julian Stafford Corbett (1854-1922) G. A. R. Callender
- Sir Mansfield George Smith Cumming (1859-1923) Christopher Andrew
- Andrew Browne Cunningham (1883-1963) S. W. C. Pack
- Sir Francis Wilfred du Guingand (1900-1979) Michael Carver
- Alexander Guthrie (Alistair) Denniston (1881-1961) F. H. Hinsley
- Christiaan Rudolph De Wet (1854-1922) D. Reitz
- Sir John Greer Dill (1881-1944) Cyril Falls
- William Sholto Douglas (1893-1969) Peter Wykeham
- Hugh Caswell Tremenheere Dowding (1882-1970) E. B. Haslam
- Sir James Edward Edmonds (1861-1956) Cyril Falls
- Sir Basil Edward Embry (1902-1977) Peter Wykeham
- Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans (Lord Mountevans) (1880-1957) H. G. Thursfield
- Bernard Edward Fergusson (Lord Ballantrae) (1911-1980) Ronald Lewin
- John Arbuthnot Fisher (1841-1920) Vincent W. Baddeley
- Bruce Austin Fraser (1888-1981) Max Hastings
- John Denton Pinkstone French (1852-1925) H. de Watteville
- Bernard Cyril Freyberg (1889-1963) D. M. Davin
- Charles Algernon Fryatt (1872-1916) Benedict William Ginsburg
- John Frederick Charles Fuller (1878-1966) Michael Carver
- Guy Penrose Gibson (1918-1944) Ralph A. Cochrane
- Sir John Bagot Glubb (1897-1986) James Lunt
- Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough (1870-1963) Brian Bond
- Sir Colin McVean Gubbins (1896-1976) Peter Wilkinson
- Douglas Haig (1861-1928) Frederick Maurice
- Sir (William) Reginald Hall (1870-1943) W. M. James
- Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton (1853-1947) C. F. Aspinall-Oglander
- Allan Francis (‘John’) Harding (1896-1989) David Hunt
- Sir Arthur Travers Harris (1892-1984) Denis Richards
- Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart (1895-1970) Ronald Lewin
- Herbert George (‘Blondie’) Hasler (1914-1987) Ewen Southby-Tailyour
- Richard Hope Hillary (1919-1943) Denis Richards
- John Charles Francis Holland (1897-1956) M. R. D. Foot
- Sir Brian Gwynne Horrocks (1895-1985) Richard Lamb
- Sir Richard Amyatt Hull (1907-1989) John Keegan
- Elsie Maud Inglis (1864-1917) Edith Palliser
- William Edmund Ironside (1880-1959) R. McLeod
- Hastings Lionel Ismay (1887-1965) Ronald Lewin
- Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson (1855-1929) F. E. Smith
- John Rushworth Jellicoe (1859-1935) Geoffrey Callender
- Sir Casper John (1903-1984) David Williams
- Sir Philip Bennet Joubert de la Ferté (1887-1965) Edward Chilton
- Roger John Brownlow Keyes (1872-1945) W. M. James
- Horatio Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916) Frederick Maurice
- (Alfred) Dillwyn Knos (1884-1943) Mavis Batey
- Thomas Edward Lawrence (‘Lawrence of Arabia’) (1888-1935) Ronald Storrs
- Sir Trafford Leigh Leigh-Mallory (1892-1944) W. B. Callaway
- Sir Edgar Rainey Ludlow-Hewitt (1886-1973) Max Hastings
- Dame (Emma) Maud McCarthy (1858-1949) Helen S. Gillespie
- James Thomas Byford McCudden (1895-1918) Henry Albert Jones
- Edward Maitland Maitland (1880-1921) Denis Richards
- Sir Giffard Le Quesne Martel (1889-1958) B. H. Liddell Hart
- Sir Frederick Barton Maurice (1871-1951) John Kennedy
- Sir John Monash (1865-1931) C. V. Owen
- Bernard Law Montgomery (1887-1976) E. T. Williams
- Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten (1900-1979) Philip Ziegler
- Cyril Louis Norton Newall (1886-1963) M. J. Dean
- Sir Richard Nugent O’Connor (1889-1981) Michael Carver
- Sir Keith Rodney Park (1892-1975) D. M. Davin
- Frederick Gerard Peake (1886-1970) John Bagot Glubb
- Sir Tom Spencer Vaughan Phillips (1888-1941) H. G. Thursfield
- Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer (1857-1932) George Macmunn
- Charles Frederick ALgernon Portal (1893-1971) Denis Richards
- Sir (Alfred) Dudley (Pickman Rogers) Pound (1877-1943) R. V. Brockman
- Sir Bertram Home Ramsay (1883-1925) G. E. Creasy
- Sir Henry Seymour Rawlinson (1864-1925) Frederick Maurice
- Sir Herbert William Richmond (1871-1946) H. G. Thursfield
- Frederick Sleigh Roberts (1832-1914) Frederick Maurice
- Sir William Robert Robertson (1860-1933) Frederick Maurice
- Stephen Wentworth Roskill (1903-1982) Correlli Barnett
- Sir (William) Geoffrey (Hanson) Salmond (1878-1933) E. Colston Shepherd
- Sir Percy Moreton Scott (1853-1924) Vincent W. Baddeley
- Sir John Cotesworth Slessor (1897-1979) Max Hastings
- William Joseph Slim (1891-1970) M. R. Roberts
- Sir (Archibald) David Stirling (1915-1990) Fitzroy Maclean
- Sir Hugh Charles Stockwell (1903-1986) Anthony Farrar-Hockley
- Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy (1883-1929) D. G. Rowell
- Sir Murray Frazer Sueter (1872-1960) P. K. Kemp
- Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes (1887-1954) Robert Blake
- Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo (1921-1945) M. R. D. Foot
- Arthur William Tedder (1896-1967) Peter Wykeham
- Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer (1898-1979) Michael Carver
- Sir Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend (1861-1924) H. de Watteville
- Hugh Montague Trenchard (1873-1956) Peter Wykeham
- Sir Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt (1870-1951) P. K. Kemp
- John Standish Surtees Prendergast (Lord Gort) Vereker (1886-1946) Cyril Falls
- Adrian Warburton (1918-1944) Constance Babington Smith
- Archibald Percival Wavell (1883-1950) Bernard Fergusson
- Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss (Lord Wester Wemyss) (1864-1933) Vincent W. Baddeley
- Sir Henry Hughes Wilson (1864-1922) H. de Watteville
- Henry Maitland Wilson (1881-1964) J. W. Hackett
- Orde Charles Wingate (1903-1944) Lord Wavell
- Garnet Joseph Wolseley (1933-1913) Frederick Maurice
- Forest Frederic Edward Yeo-Thomas (1902-1964) James Hutchison
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