Encyclopedias are concerned primarily with the facts, and this visual encyclopedia of World War II is faithful to the norm. It includes detailed descriptions of every major weapon and weapons system used by the combatants on both sides throughout the war: ships and ship classes, aircraft, tanks, and armoured vehicles, artillery pieces, and small arms. It provides hundreds of concise biographies of the leaders and notables of the war, civilian and military. It recounts in outline the major campaigns and battles on every front and relates the outcome of one to another.
