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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 70. Chapters: Wilhelm Canaris, Alfred Jodl, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, Ali Hassan al-Majid, Tomoyuki Yamashita, John Byng, Ludwig Beck, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, Hartwig von Ludwiger, Andrey Vlasov, Michel Ney, Erwin von Witzleben, Alexander Lohr, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Friedrich Olbricht, Alfred Saalwachter, Bruno Brauer, Arnaldo Ochoa, Friedrich-Wilhelm Muller, The 13 Martyrs of Arad, Erich Fellgiebel, Friedrich Fromm, Yoshio Tachibana, Gustav Heistermann von Ziehlberg, Francesco Bussone da Carmagnola, Helmuth Stieff, George Boakye, Otto Herfurth, Gottfried von Erdmannsdorff, Anton Dostler, Johann-Georg Richert, Werner von Erdmannsdorff, Gustav Fehn, Martin Fiebig, Filippo di Piero Strozzi, Adolf Fischer, Fritz-Georg von Rappard, Alexander Bagration of Mukhrani, Lysias, Sergei Bunyachenko, Aleksandr Loktionov, Mikhail Meandrov. Excerpt: John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, KG (1504 - 22 August 1553) was an English general, admiral, and politician, who led the government of the young King Edward VI from 1550 until 1553, and unsuccessfully tried to install Lady Jane Grey on the English throne after the King's death. The son of Edmund Dudley, a minister of Henry VII executed by Henry VIII, John Dudley became the ward of Sir Edward Guildford at the age of seven. He grew up in Guildford's household together with his future wife, Guildford's daughter Jane, with whom he was to have 13 children. Dudley served as Vice-Admiral and Lord Admiral from 1537 until 1547, during which time he set novel standards of navy organization and was an innovative commander at sea. He also developed a strong interest in overseas exploration. Dudley took part in the 1544 campaigns in Scotland...
