The standard for most photos is 300 dpi. It will be a very high quality image and anything much higher will probably be more dots per inch than the printer can print. I worked on my hs yearbook a few years back and everything was done at 300 dpi.
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.