Gasoline engines will run on paint thinner, flex fuel vehicles will also run on pure grain alcohol. Diesel engines will run on well filtered cooking oil but it will gum them up if you don't run diesel through it before you shut it off.
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.