Recently, we've had two Iwo Jima, during WarII, movies,
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especially that Japanese Commander (the movie using him to his wife's letters as the thread line throughout), who shot himself died at the end.
In ancient China, we have,

http://www.chinaschool.org/szzl/special/historycity/yinchuan/html2/n1.htm
Although, back to the time,
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紹興十一年八月,高宗和秦檜派人向金求和,金兀術要求“必先殺嶽飛,方可議和”。秦檜於是誣嶽飛謀反,將其下獄。1142年秦檜以“莫須有”的罪名將嶽飛毒死於臨安風波亭。寧宗時,嶽飛得以昭雪,被追封鄂王。"
But he was praised and glorified ever since his time by the entire country for over a thousand years in Chinese history up till this days 雖死猶榮。秦檜 on the contrary, was looked down and had only a 萬世的罵名 left as a malicious little person.