Since its initial publication as an Ace Science Fiction Special in 1984, William Gibson's Neuromancer has been established as one of the most influential and respected novels in the history of its genre, as well as in mainstream literary culture."https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/book_history/v005/5.1brouillette.htmlhttp://io9.com/21-books-that-changed-science-fiction-and-fantasy-forev-1610590701http://auxiliarymemory.com/2013/04/14/the-defining-science-fiction-books-of-the-1980s.
Are you perhaps thinking of the DAW paperbacks which started in the seventies. They all had yellow spines.
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.