Alex Haley won a Pulitzer "Special Citation" in 1977 for his book Roots:The Saga of an American Family He later settled a lawsuit admitting plagiarism from Harold Courlander's The African published in 1967.
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.