I think you can do much better and take far fewer risks of being beaten for disobedience should he not be as 'reformed' as his words say. After all, lying even to other Muslims in service to Allah's commandment to conquer the infidels is not a sin, is it?
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.