I'm fairly sure there's no built in way to do it - although you could look for a plugin, it may exist. Someone else posted the .text() method (but deleted the post) which will get you ALL the text, minus the tags, which means you'll get "Text I'm interested in Other crap I don't care about" -- not what you want.
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.