CSS Sprites are used sparingly and selectively, in order to improve performance. They're not used as a way to "skip slicing". You can make a sprite with some buttons and icons that are used decoratively, but still, you'll need to cut them and reposition them in a new image.
If I understand it correctly, you think you can just position your html over a huge background, which even if you find a way to do (!) I'm afraid it won't look at all good if you want to promote yourself. (for once it is not flexible and fluid - for sure.).
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.