My three books would be a single volume collection of the Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis.
An Anthology of World War One Poems, by various poets.
Third would be the cartoon collection "Bunny Suicides" a series of cartoons in which rabbits come up with ideas to kill themselves, grusome but very funny.
I would bring the Bible, a dictionary and a concordance. That should keep me occupied until I was rescued.
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.