Sounds like a virus or boot kit. If you know your computer is not infected, or if it is effected in safe mode, then you might have a faulty hard drive. You can try to reinstall windows from the box and see if that fixes the startup, I think there is an option to save your files too.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.