In Rome it was called the Circus Maximus on an oval track about the size of a 100 yard football field. In Greece it was the ppodrome Chariot races were held in a long narrow stadium known as a hippodrome in the Greek world and a circus in the Roman world If you use Google Earth to look at the ruins of Tyre in the Lebanon, or south-east of Haghia Sophia in Istanbul, or by the forum in Rome, you will see the typical shape of a hippodrome (ppo is the root for horse, ie hippopotamus= water horse).
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.