Hanselman just blogged on this yesterday, he has a huge list of links.
I find Clarius's T4 Editor really helpful. It adds syntax highlighting, IntelliSense, and project items for T4 to Visual Studio. There are also demo videos on the website.
There is a free Community edition, and an enhanced, non-free edition which also does C# syntax highlighting.
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.