Either way depending on how you use it. In most all cases, on a business card or signed on formal documentation the individual would be indicated as Cox PhD. If the individual is being referred to in the third person it would be Dr. Cox.
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.