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Konstantin Konstaninovich Rokossovsky.

Because the list of people Stalin addressed by their patronymic was two names long and one of them was Konstantin Konstantinovich.

Adrian carton de Wiart.

When asked about his experience being shot and/or blown up eight separate times while leading infantry in the bloodiest military conflict in human history, Carton de Wiart remarked, "Frankly I enjoyed the war."

http://badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=30045813384


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also Jack Churchill.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/jack-churchill


Because why kill Nazis with rifles when you can use swords and longbows instead.

Guillaume-Henri Dufour

First off: won the Sonderbundskrieg, Civil war won with the fewest possible losses on both sides. Granting inner peace to switzerland (great feat).

Secondly for the Neuenburgerhandel, also known as that one time Switzerland successfully scared off Prussia, because why not.

Henri Guisan: General in WW2, one of the reasons of the swiss bunker fetish.


Sidenote: A swiss general is defacto comparable to a Dictator in the roman republic, only elevated in times of danger /need.