Crossing the Line (A Second Volume of Autobiography)

The second volume of Claud Cockburn's autobiographical writing.  Cockburn (died 1981) was a journalist - serving as the Foreign Correspondent for The Times to 1933 and a War Correspondent during the Spanish Civil War, and widely credited with coining the phrase 'believe nothing until it has been officially denied'. He is also thought to have written one of the dullest headlines of all time, 'Small Earthquake in China; Not Many Dead'.   He was a leading member of the British Communist Party and said to have been one of the leaders of the Third International in Western Europe.  Born in Peking, the second cousin of English novelists Alec and Evelyn Waugh, he strongly opposed British Appeasement of the Nazi Regime in Germany, becoming a novelist in later life.