Yes you can take a pre-booked holiday from a new job. When I accepted a previous job I told them that I had already booked a holiday with my family, and if I was forced to cancel my family would lose an awful lot of money. More.
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.