Nigel H. Jones

Nigel Jones (born 1951) is a British historian, journalist and biographer .

Born in Woking, Surrey, he spent a peripatetic childhood in Surrey, Sussex, Kent and rural Yorkshire, and was educated at schools in the Isle of Wight and North Wales. His journalistic career began on local newspapers in Hertfordshire and the Cambridge Evening News where he was Crown Court correspondent. He then spent almost two years in Germany, learning the language, studying the history, and working in factories in Karlsruhe, Reutlingen and Berlin.

In the 1980s he worked for the Press Association news agency in London, and as an editor with BBC and Independent Radio News IRN.

He has written a number of books with their references below.

His first book The War Walk: A Journey along the Western Front (1983) was inspired by his elderly father, Frank Jones (1890-1970), a Great War veteran. For it, he walked along the trench lines of the Western front, interviewing more than 30 veterans of the conflict. Among these was the German author and war hero Ernst Jünger.

His stay with Jünger inspired his second book Hitler's Heralds: the story of the Freikorps 1918-1923. (1987. Reissued in 2004 as A Brief History of the birth of the Nazis).

His third book was inspired by the discovery in 1988 of an archive of letters, papers and manuscripts of the English novelist and playwright Patrick Hamilton (1904-1962) which were bequeathed to him by Hamilton's sister-in-law Aileen Hamilton and used in his biography of Hamilton Through a Glass Darkly (1990 : reissued 2008).

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