Take a look at wkhtmltoimage . Feed it some HTML and it will render an image of what the page might look like in a Webkit browser ("might" because browsers vary and Webkit is constantly being worked on).
I have had to do this before for a client and from experience one of the easiest ways of doing this is to use a free, third-party service called GrabzIt. They are really reliable, fast and have APIs for five different languages including PHP.
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.