You can export to CSV instead of Excel (because Excel opens CSV files easily), but they don't have any formatting. You can set up SSIS (or BCP in a scheduled task) to export in the CSV file a single column which already contains the commas and the text delimiters, so the data would be presented by Excel in separate columns.
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.