About 47K lines of C in the src and include directories; about 1000 functions defined at startup; 48K lines of Lush and 1300 functions in the library; and 12,000 functions in the Packages directory (this represents several 100 kilo-lines of code but much of it is binding to external libraries). Oh, and 650 pages of documentation. More.
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.