I had the same problem a while ago, and after some debugging I found that the crash was because of the font-face (which in my case was included as a separate stylesheet called fonts. Css) was rendered inside head . IE8 has a problem with this, but works just fine when I moved the rendering to just inside body .
IE8 seems to prefer double quotes. This fixed unstyled text on first load for me, might fix crashes for you.
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.