You're surrounded by them. You don't think that an ancient would be amazed by a cell phone? Wouldn't that seem like magic to an ancient Greek?
How about a tablet computer? Show that to even someone as sophisticated and forward thinking as Aristotle, and he would be totally baffled by it--it would be totally impossible for him to understand it. Ditto for the Internet, televisions, radio, electricity, automobiles, aircraft, submarines, flashlights, DVD players, iPods, eBook readers, rockets, machine guns, GPS devices.
It's trivially easy to find examples of things that would flummox even the most sophisticated person of five hundred years ago, never mind five thousand. Bring a simple compass to the year 2000 BCE, and you'd either be stoned to death or become a holy man.
Radio/TV etc. Sound and pictures through the air to 18th Century people.
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.