The Holocaust and World War II Almanac provides an exhaustive historical and interpretive view of this pivotal period in American history in this three volume set. In volumes 1 and 2, chapters provide information on the various aspects of the Holocaust and World War II, including the events leading up to the war as well as recent developments regarding reparations to war and Holocaust victims. Specific topics include:

Jewish life in Germany before the Holocaust
The rise of the Nazi Party
Major battles and turning points in the conflict
The defeat of Japan
Concentration and death camps
Life on the home front
Bringing Nazi war criminals to justice
Spies and scientists
Nazi art, entertainment, and propaganda
The worldwide political, social, and economic changes wrought by the conflict
Interspersed throughout these chapters are over 50 full or excerpted primary sources, including selections from Hitler's Mein Kampf, Winston Churchill's "Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat" speech, views of the war told through the words and pictures of American cartoonist Bill Mauldin, news accounts describing Kristallnacht, a selection of Ernie Pyle's dispatches, and letters from wives to their husbands on the front. Each selection is accompanied by introductory material, a discussion of key elements of the source, a report on the aftermath, and further reading.

Volume 3 presents over 100 biographical profiles ranging from 1,500 to 3,000 words on famous, infamous, and less well known people of this crucial era. Included are:

Nikolaus Barbie
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Margaret Bourke-White
Eva Braun
Polish-Jewish resistance workers Shimson and Tova Draenger
American pilot Jacqueline Cochran
Jimmy Doolittle
Anne Frank
Miep Gies
Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally")
Jewish assassin Herschel Grynszpan
Executed British spy Noor Inayat Khan
Hermann Goring
Adolf Hitler
Oveta Culp Hobby
Austrian conscientious objector Franz Jaggerstatter
Japanese American Fred T. Korematsu
Auschwitz survivor Isabella Katz Leitner
Glenn Miller
The Navajo Code Talkers
Chester Nimitz
Underground activist Roza Robota
Erwin Rommel
Franklin Roosevelt
White Rose founders Hans and Sophie Scholl
Edith Stein
Austrian gypsy Karl Stojka
Corrie ten Boom
Hideki Tojo
Michiko Weglyn
and many more.

The Holocaust and World War II Almanac also contains a bibliography and cumulative index as well as four appendices: Jewish Victims of the Holocaust; The Nuremberg War Crime Trials; Japanese War Crimes --The Tokyo Trials; and World War II and Holocaust Film Overview. Included are more than 800 images, including photos, maps and war cartoons. The text is also supplemented with many boxes, including brief biographies, places and events.