I had really good luck traveling with travel books in the series called "Let's Go! " There's a let's go Europe, and there are ones broken down by countries. It's updated every year.
We not only found a safe, inexpensive hostel right in the city, also cool night clubs to visit and cheap museums.
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.