Eleanor Hancock

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Eleanor Hancock is an Australian historian.

Life

After studying history, Hancock received his PhD from the Australian National University in 1988 with a thesis on "total war" published in 1992 by St. Martin's Press. She then taught at Monash University .

Today, Hancock is Professor of History at the Australian Defense Force Academy at the University of New South Wales .

Hancock, who was married to the historian Gunther E. Rothenberg (1923–2004) from 1995 until his death in 2004, has come to the fore primarily through publications on war history, such as her biography of Ernst Röhm from 2008.

Fonts

  • The National-Socialist Leadership and Total War. 1941-1945 , 1992.
  • Women and the State. Australian Perspectives , 1993.
  • "Ernst Röhm and the Experience of World War I." In: The Journal of Military History . 60, 1996, pp. 39-60.
  • Ernst Röhm. Hitler's Chief of Staff , London 2008.
  • with Craig Stockings: Swastika over the Acropolis. Re-interpreting the Nazi Invasion of Greece in World War II (= History of Warfare; Vol. 92), Leiden / Boston: Brill 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Hancock, Eleanor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian historian
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century