Definitely reading. I love a wide range of books including science fantasy, science fiction, history-inspired and more fantasy-type novels. When I was little, my mother would punish me by taking away my books.
Based on your listing of books, you might want to check out Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Awesome read. Some of my favorite authors are Card, Isabelle Allende (especially Daughter of Fortune), and Marion Zimmer Bradley (Mists of Avalon).
Ender's game is the first book in a series of books by Card. There is a video game based on the book and there have been rumors of a movie for years. I've attached someone's vision of a movie trailer for a potential movie.
Let me say that my favorite hobby involves meeting strange women, in stranger places.
My favorite hobby is my work. That is why I enjoy what I do. Outside of that spending time with family.
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.