The easiest way to learn how to play, is to choose one of your favorite songs on the radio or something. Go online and teach yourself the chords because most songs are fairly easy and use the basic chords. Then you just keep on doing that for each song.
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.