The Last Shadow Puppets Miles Kane The Killers The Fratellis Oasis Stone Roses The Courteeners The White Stripes The Hives The Coral Manic Street Preachers Franz Ferdinand Kasabian The Cribs Keane Also try websites like LastFM and TasteKid to generate bands :).
White Stripes are amazing. I also like Alt-j and AWOLNATION.
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.