The Devil's Decade
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears, jacket protected by mylar sleeve; price clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Good.
The 1930s were a decade of catastrophic contradictions — glamour and poverty, fascism and democracy, appeasement and revolution — and Claud Cockburn, one of the most fearless journalists of the twentieth century, lived through every contradictory moment of it. The Devil's Decade presents a vivid, first-hand chronicle of that turbulent era, from the rise of Hitler and the Spanish Civil War to the abdication crisis and the grinding misery of the Great Depression, as witnessed by a man who was at the centre of the storm. Cockburn writes with the sharp, uncompromising eye of a radical journalist who refused to be silenced, and his account cuts through the comfortable myths that later generations constructed around the thirties. His prose carries the urgent electricity of dispatches filed under fire, blending personal memoir with incisive political analysis to produce a portrait of a world careering toward disaster. For anyone seeking to understand how civilised Europe sleepwalked into catastrophe, this is an indispensable and unsettling reckoning.
Author: Claud Cockburn
Format: Hardback
Published: 1973, Sidgwick and Jackson, London
Genre: History
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears, jacket protected by mylar sleeve; price clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Good.
The 1930s were a decade of catastrophic contradictions — glamour and poverty, fascism and democracy, appeasement and revolution — and Claud Cockburn, one of the most fearless journalists of the twentieth century, lived through every contradictory moment of it. The Devil's Decade presents a vivid, first-hand chronicle of that turbulent era, from the rise of Hitler and the Spanish Civil War to the abdication crisis and the grinding misery of the Great Depression, as witnessed by a man who was at the centre of the storm. Cockburn writes with the sharp, uncompromising eye of a radical journalist who refused to be silenced, and his account cuts through the comfortable myths that later generations constructed around the thirties. His prose carries the urgent electricity of dispatches filed under fire, blending personal memoir with incisive political analysis to produce a portrait of a world careering toward disaster. For anyone seeking to understand how civilised Europe sleepwalked into catastrophe, this is an indispensable and unsettling reckoning.