DEGAULLE.. what's he doing on the list.. that strutting, egotistical peacock..
Churchill was the greatest leader, leadership being defined as rallying an outmanned, outgunned, isolated island nation from the jaws of defeat to ultimate victory.
That said WW2 was won on the Eastern Front, not the Western. I just can't give any credit to Stalin, someone who every bit as much a murdering, megalomaniac as Hitler.
A notable absence in the military figures is Russian Marshal Georgi Zhukov. He orchestrated the pivotal German defeat at Stalingrad, and the final push to Berlin. A ruthless military commander, he had his own troops shot for retreating.. and did little to prevent the rape of Berlin after the fall of Hitler. But having 20 million of your country men killed will do that to you.