You want to book at Christmas as early as you can. Normally, if I'm flying over the holidays I have tickets by September. It just gets really ugly (price wise, connection wise) if you wait any longer.
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.