Mine too was a tractor. A little grey Ferguson with a draw-bar and a three-point linkage (something very new in those days...) It had a lovely little diesel engine and a thin little gear stick, not much thicker than a large knitting needle..! This was 1952, just before I signed up for 2 years National Service. Sturdy little machine, lasted for years.
I was still seeing them around over 20 years later.
The first car I ever drove was a Wolseley. A battered old thing that a pal and I bought for £10 off a farmer who had left it rotting in his barn. This would have been around 1962/63, I was still under age and we only drove it on an old aerodrome.It had been a police car and still had a small hole in the roof where a Police sign had been.
The first car that I ever drove, once I was legally allowed to, was my Dad's Ford Prefect. Then the first car I owned was a second hand Mini.
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.