Reading the Princeton Review AP European History Book is much more interesting than the regular textbook. Why don't we just use that one?

You school district most likely has a contract with the publisher of the textbook you use in class. Those contracts generally are very strict about usage - both exclusivity and years of use.

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.