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Neal Ascherson: On Claud Cockburn, 24 October 2024
Believe Nothing until It Is Officially Denied: Claud Cockburn and the Invention of Guerrilla Journalism
by Patrick Cockburn.
Verso, 293 pp., £25, October,978 1 80429 075 0 Show More
by Patrick Cockburn.
Verso, 293 pp., £25, October,
“... and Claud was sent to school at Berkhamstead. The headmaster during the First World War was Charles Greene, father of Graham and a high-minded radical, and Cockburn first saw political violence on Armistice Day, when a drunken mob burst into the school accusing Greene (quite wrongly) of having been ‘anti-war’. But the experiences that followed were ... ”