Click here for an introduction to Churchill’s adversaries.
Choose a character from the table of 30 below, or from one of these mystery seven:
- A dictator whose remains ended up in a soap box with a leg missing.
- A nationalist who escaped from jail using a key and file smuggled in a fruit cake.
- A tyrant who loved watching Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
- A military leader who had an exclusion zone of six paces around him for subordinates.
- A world leader who had green and black teeth.
- A renowned pacifist who was a sergeant and won three war medals.
- A propagandist who was his country’s prime minister for a day before committing suicide.
![]() | Al-Gaylani, Rashid Ali | Iraqi politician | 1892-1965 |
![]() | Al-Husseini, Amin | Palestinian religious leader | c.1897-1974 |
![]() | Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal | Turkish military leader and statesman | 1881-1938 |
![]() | Aung San | Burmese politician | 1915-1947 |
![]() | Baldwin, Stanley | UK politician | 1867-1947 |
![]() | Bose, Subhas Chandra | Indian politician | 1897-1945 |
![]() | Budget Protest League | UK pressure group | 1909-1910 |
![]() | de Gaulle, Charles | French soldier and politician | 1890-1970 |
![]() | de Valera, Éamon | Irish politician | 1882-1975 |
![]() | Gandhi, Mohandas | Indian politican | 1869-1948 |
![]() | Hitler, Adolf | German political leader | 1889-1945 |
![]() | Goebbels, Joseph | German politician | 1897-1945 |
![]() | Jinnah, Mohamed Ali | Pakistani politician | 1876-1948 |
![]() | Kenyatta, Jomo | Kenyan politician | c.1897-1978 |
![]() | Keynes, John Maynard | UK economist | 1883-1946 |
![]() | Mao, Zedong | Chinese military and political leader | 1893-1976 |
![]() | Mossadegh, Mohammad | Iranian politician | 1882-1967 |
![]() | Mussolini, Benito | Italian politician | 1883-1945 |
![]() | Nasser, Gamal Abdel | Egyptian politician | 1918-1970 |
![]() | Pétain, Philippe | French military leader and politician | 1856-1951 |
![]() | Shah, Reza | Iranian royalty | 1878-1944 |
![]() | Soviet spies | Various | 1920s-1950s |
![]() | Stalin, Joseph | Soviet politician | 1878-1953 |
![]() | Suffragettes | UK pressure group | 1900s-1920s |
![]() | Tojo, Hideki | Japanese politician | 1884-1948 |
![]() | Trotsky, Leon | Soviet politician | 1879-1940 |
![]() | UK fascist groups | Various | 1920s-1950s |
![]() | UK strikers | Various | 1910s-1920s, 1940s |
![]() | Yamashita, Tomoyuki | Japanese army leader | 1885-1946 |
![]() | Zionist paramilitary groups | Paramilitaries in Palestine/Israel | 1920s-1940s |
See also
- Introduction to adversaries
- Adversaries’ lifespans
- Main menu (at top)