I think of the excellent (but short lived) sitcom on BBC1 staring Simon Pegg and Julian Rhind-Tutt youtube.com/watch?v=y6C78dILNIQ&feature=....
Ppie hippy is for the dimensions of your hips, a totally different concept.
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.