Every minute was a total unknown thing. And not only did we not know what was going to be but we knew that it was going to be bad. Enriched with the moving words of Holocaust survivors and eyewitnesses, provided by Steven Spielberg's Shoah Institute (also available on accompanying DVD), this ambitious pictorial overview will horrify, sadden, and educate a wide range of readers. Wood tackles a massive project, moving from anti-Semitism in world history to a discussion of the Holocaust itself that steers clear of oversimplification—stressing, for instance, that many of those murdered were not Jewish, and that outside nations were culpable of postponing intervention. The book is designed in typical DK style, with thematic, clustered facts and images (many gravely disturbing), but much of the information appears in small type that less-patient readers will bypass. Sometimes, too, the book's attempt to cover so much results in statements and diagrams that lack sufficient context. But this succeeds more often than it falters, providing a wide-ranging supplement to the narrower, personal experiences recounted in Holocaust literature's many fine memoirs...