MR Jones - The Man Who Knew Too Much: The Life and Death of Gareth Jones Shipton MartinPaperback

Murdered in Mongolia in 1935 on the orders of Stalin, the Welsh investigative journalist Gareth Jones is a national hero in Ukraine for reporting the truth about the Holodomor (the Soviet Union's politically-driven famine that killed millions) and is widely believed to be the inspiration for the character Mr Jones in George Orwell's Animal Farm. A graduate of Aberystwyth, Strasbourg and Cambridge universities, Jones--who spoke five languages--was talented, well-connected, and determined to discover the truth behind the momentous political events of the post-war period. He travelled widely to report on Mussolini's Italy, the fledgling Irish Free State, and the Depression-ravaged United States, and was the first foreign journalist to travel with Hitler and Goebbels after the Nazis had taken power in Germany. Jones' quest for truth also drew him to the Soviet Union in 1934 where his