I was about to write a hub on the truth and reality of publishing anyway, so your question will fit right in. Sometime in the next ten days or so, I will get to it. Up to my ears in rewrites on a novel right now.
Has you book been edited? -- very important if you are going to start circulating it. Email me about your work and what stage it is in, and perhaps send me a 2,000 word sample.
Then I will better be able to judge what advice to give.
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.