Shires of UK One presumes you mean 'at the present time'. Shires are counties, and counties are political divisions subject to change. Many of the old counties no longer have a physical existence, though their inhabitants will still insist they live there.
There are people in Dumfries and Galloway, for example, who still insist that they live in Dumfriesshire However, the official list since 1998 has been as follows: Aberdeenshire (Abers) Bedfordshire (Bed) Berkshire (Berks) Buckinghamshire (Buk) Cambridgeshire (Cambs) Carmarthenshire (Carmar) Cheshire (Ches) Clackmannanshire (Cla) Denbighshire (De) Derbyshire (Derby) East Ayrshire (E Ayr) East Dunbartonshire (E Dun) East Renfrewshire (E Rn) East Riding of Yorkshire (East Yorks) Flintshire (F) Gloucestershire (Glos) Hampshire (Hants) Herefordshire (Heref) Hertfordshire (Hert) Lancashire (Lancs) Leicestershire (Leics) Lincolnshire (Lincs) Monmouthshire (Mon) North Ayrshire (N Ayr) This gives us 41. BUT there are counties of which, despite both their official and historic names, are frequently spoken of with the suffix -shire. People talk of Devonshire and Dorsetshire, for example.
Prominent among this class are: Devon Dorset Rutland (R) Somerset So one could say, 45 Of course, if you think of historic counties, the list would be somewhat different; and again, most people still think in terms of the old order. Thus, historic Lancashire (my own county) has been split into Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and a part of Cumbia; but we all think of ourselves still as Lancastrians For further details, try http://jonathan.rawle.org/hyperpedia/counties.
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.