If you need to get a good understanding of any technology you really should buy a book. A book give you a much better understanding of the technology than reading blog posts. Blog posts tend to highlight a particular feature or problem without giving you the big picture.
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.