Nigel Colley, Author
Nov 21 2011
WHEN:
Nov 21, 2011 at 3:00pm
WHERE:
Zenger Room
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Author Nigel Colley will discuss his book, Gareth Jones: More Than a Grain of Truth.
The Biography of Gareth Jones, a Welsh journalist who took on the media elite and the Soviet government to expose an artificial famine that killed from 6 to 10 million people in Ukraine and neighboring areas in l932-33. The book details how Jones defied Soviet censors and military to get into Ukraine, visited ghost towns and interviewed survivors and other witnesses.
Contacts:
National Press Club: PETER HICKMAN
301/530-1210 (H&O/T&F), 301/367-7711 (CEL), 202/662-7540 (NPC), [email protected]
Mr. Colley:
NADIA MCCONNELL, OKSANA YAKOVENKO (U.S.-Ukraine Foundation)
202/223-2228 (tel), [email protected], [email protected]