The Week, 1933-1946

Essential reading in all the chancelleries not only of Europe and the Americas, but in Tokyo, Beijing and Chongqin, for all its seeming amateurishness, its snickering asides and shoestring budget,The Week told all the movers and players of its day just how little they thought of each other, exposed the fairweather alliances of the 1930s and the utter futility of gentlemanly undertakings. Dismissed, denied and praised to the skies as much by its contemporaries as by its successors, Claud Cockburn's The Week is as essential reading in our day as it was in its heyday.