The Fascist Party in Wales?: Plaid Cymru, Welsh Nationalism and the Accusation of Fascism

By Richard Wyn Jones

For decades, accusations have been made that senior figures among Welsh nationalists were sympathetic towards Fascism during the 1930s and the Second World War – such accusations that would sully the name of any political adversary. In this challenging work, Wales’s most prominent political commentator assesses the truth of the historical charges, shedding new light on aspects of Plaid Cymru and its leadership during the period in question, and bringing into the open an important discussion on the political culture of contemporary Wales.

• Language: English
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Release date: May 15, 2014
• ISBN: 9781783161560

Richard Wyn Jones

I was born and raised in a small seaside town of Cardigan on the west coast of Wales.After University, I spent many years working in London before finally moving from the city to the countryside, eventually settling in the idyllic Cotswold region of England, where I've had more time to focus on my writing.From a very early age I had a keen interest in crafting stories and would get lost for hours in my adventures. My working career in predominantly senior marketing and creative positions enabled me to continue this childhood passion and fuelled my dream to eventually attempt to write a full blown novel.As a young boy, I found books by authors such as Richard Adams fascinating, where they used animal subject matter to deliver human stories and this genre very much inspired me in the direction I would take for my first novel, A Squirrel's Tale and subsequently with my second novel, The Prairie Drifter.My biggest hope is that people really enjoy the characters and the journey they take as much as I enjoyed creating them.