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Throughout, one is struck by the completeness of the underlying research and the validity of the shrewd historical analysis.
- John Graham Jones, Gwales
MAC made the English state fear the rise of an IRA-style campaign in Wales. It was pressure of a kind England understood, and it helped pave the way, or so it seems to me, for the gains Wales has achieved during the past fifty years.
- John Barnie, New Welsh Review
This is a sympathetic deep-dive into the mind and motivations of a principled and emotionally rigid man who delivered some of the biggest blows in the name of Welsh nationalism.
- Joe Atkinson, The Welsh Agenda
"This is no one-sided hero worshipping of a man some would see as a terrorist but an extremely well researched and well balanced biography based on 15 years of candid interviews. A study of a man, his time, the politics, and to conclude a summarisation of key points. Like the book's subject, Dr Wyn Thomas is willing and capable of looking at all sides of a story or political argument.Without the author's research there is so much of this episode in history that would undoubtedly have gone untold.Along with the same author's Hands Off Wales (the definitive history of Tryweryn and its aftermath) John Jenkins: The Reluctant Revolutionary is essential reading for anyone with an interest in not just Welsh history and politics but British history and politics too. Bravo.
- Brett Evans, Amazon
"The importance of this book to any modern independence movement (and there should be no question that it is of importance) is categorically not as a blueprint, but as a reminder that any movement looking to oppose, reform, or dismantle the Birtish state should be vigilant about repurposing the power structures of colonialism.
- Jamie Thomas, Planet magazine
