No, but they can sue you. We are not in the 1300's when there was a debtors prison, so your credit rating will go down, you will/may have to go to court or a collection agency will call up a whole lot.
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.