At this time of year employers expect applicants to have vacation booked and usually honour it IF they say so at the interview. Breaking it to them at the last minute means they could refuse as other, longer serving staff may have booked that time already, leaving them short of cover.
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.