Synopsis
Gareth Jones, a young Welsh journalist and former Foreign Affairs secretary died in mysterious circumstances on the eve of his 30th birthday in 1935 in Inner Mongolia having been captured by bandits and held for GBP 8,000 ransom. In March and April, 1933 he was the first named journalist to expose the genocide-famine, the Holodomor in the Soviet Union and Ukraine and in telling the truth he suffered humiliation at the hands of the Moscow correspondents. The biography has been taken from his letters, his articles and his diaries and is a social history of the early thirties.