Each time you visit that hub - whether when written or while writing it counts as a view - will show as a hubpages view - hope that helps.
Of course it could! You could have many, many more views in even less time with enough followers, and with the right topics. Good for you!
Sounds like you might have hit a home run!
Yes its possible graceomalley. Depending on how many of your followers on hubpages might be online they might have all seen your hub being published and clicked the link to view it.
Yes usually you get a few visits in the first minutes after you published the hub since the hubpages home page shows recent published hubs.
Take a look and see. It's your Hub, not mine write what ever way you want.
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.