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Anthony Storr Cockburn Sums Up Claud Cockburn (Quartet pp. 270, £8.50) Claud Cockburn was born at Peking 'on the day the Japanese blew,. up the Russian flagship Petropavolsk at......

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Gavin Stamp Hugh Casson's Diary Hugh Casson (Macmillan pp.176, £8.95) Why does anyone keep a diary? For a truthful record of events? To encourage greater self-awareness? Or just......