The cheap version is a series of bug bombs once for the adults and once for the eggs but if your boyfriend is fighting them with them they may be chemically resistant to it already. They can die of starvation but it takes months and they multiply very rapidly. The lack of carpeting will not safeguard you, they can live and breed below floorboards.
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.