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, Waless 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. An impressive volume that buries forever one of the most destructive political lies in Welsh political discourse.Adam Price, former Plaid Cymru MP, adviser to Leanne Wood AM, Leader of Plaid Cymru The Party of Wales This is a deft, incisive and admirably terse dissection of Welsh political culture in the twentieth century, important not only for exploding the persistent myth that the young Welsh Nationalist party sympathised with Fascism in the interwar period, but for explaining how such a baseless accusation could ever have been made and sustained for so long.Professor Robert Evans, Regius Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Oxford.