I love tales of fictional generals managing an extended military campaign. A few examples:
16 ways to defend a walled city
The Black Company (books of the south)
The Starfire series
The Empire Trilogy
Pillars of the Earth (less war based example)
A few ways this can go wrong: the leader can be a Mary Sue. Good leaders have good teams, and don't solve every problem themselves. Also, great leaders appreciate logistics and the strategic level, a leader that only commands on the field of battle is boring.
I think I was drawn to this by reading real histories about people like Hannibal, Napoleon, Washington, Grant, etc. But I like the discovery that comes with new worlds, so am seeking fiction.
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Check out the Shadow Campaigns series by Django Wexler, starts with *The Thousand Names*.
The defence of Duffer’s Drift.
The Red Knight, in Miles/Christian Cameron’s Traitor Son Cycle series sounds like exactly what you’re looking for.
Really, I could recommend any of Cameron’s fantasy or historical fiction series.
The Belasarius series by David Drake and Eric Flint.