I can't help you directly with finding documentation but Visual Studio will need to load these assemblies into memory and navigate the assembly structure for many different things, such as Intellisense population, Object Browser, etc. It will also have to potentially load other GAC items that those assemblies depend upon into memory and do similar things.
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.