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  1. Beat the Devil is a 1951 thriller written by Claud Cockburn under the pseudonym James Helvick. Cockburn used the pseudonym, though he had left the British Communist Party in 1947, he was still considered a "Red" during the early years of the Cold War, which was rife with anti-communist sentiment.

    • Claud Cockburn
    • 1951
  2. Jan 22, 2023 · Beat the Devil. by. Cockburn, Claud, 1904-. Publication date. 1985. Publisher. London : Hogarth Press. Collection. internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled.

  3. Beat the Devil is one of Cockburn's early fiction novels from after he gave up his communist passion. It is relatively free from politics and mostly focuses on human frailties absent any real rancor over them. One of the best and most illustrative moments of his gentle humor is early in the book.

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  4. Jul 23, 2012 · Alexander Cockburn: The Best of ‘Beat the Devil’. Some of our favorites from nearly thirty years of his Nation column. Alexander Cockburn, one of America’s best-known radical journalists,...

  5. Alexander Cockburn, The Nation 's "Beat the Devil" columnist and one of America's best-known radical journalists, was born in Scotland and grew up in Ireland. He graduated from Oxford in...

  6. Jan 1, 1985 · Beat the Devil is one of cockburn's early fiction novels from after he gave up his communist passion. It is relatively free from politics and mostly focuses on human frailties absent any real rancor over them. One of the best and most illustrative moments of his gentle humor is early in the book.

    • Claud Cockburn
  7. Claud Cockburn. "Beat the Devil" is a satirical novel that follows the adventures of its protagonist, a British journalist, who becomes entangled in a complex plot involving a group of eccentric characters, including a fraudulent tycoon, a femme fatale, and a mysterious Italian prince.

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