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As Portmeirion attests, Williams-Ellis was an architect with an eye for space, detail and the humorous.   Although he never completed formal training he was constantly in demand for a wide variety of commissions, from the restoration of country houses to the planning of new towns in the Home Counties, Russia and China.   A leading campaigner for sympathetic urban development and for the founding of National Parks, he was also a prolific writer on these and other subjects and found time to travel, and sail, the world. Patrician, occasionally eccentric, the particular genius of Clough Williams-Ellis is apparent to all who visit his buildings.  Jonah Jones' intriguing memoir guides the reader through the life and work of this friend, neighbour, employer and collaborator of many years. It offers an intimate insight into his childhood, war service, longlasting marriage to Amabel Strachey, and life as owner of Portmeirion, and a commentary on his career as architect, planner and public figure.  Jonah Jones (1919-2004) was born near Durham. A pacifist, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the war, and on demobilisation moved to north Wales to work as a printer, sculptor and letter-cutter. He was also a novelist, having published A Tree May Fall, about the Easter Uprising in Dublin, and Zorn, the life of a Jewish hermit. 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In this role he was parachuted into northern Europe and took part in the Ardennes and German campaigns, and in the opening of the Dachau concentration camp. After the war he was posted to Palestine, where he observed the issues surrounding the establishment of Israel, but was also able to hone his artistic skills for the benefit of his regiment. It was in Haifa that, much to Mona's dismay, he met and married Judith Grossman, with whom he returned to Britain to set up as an artist, now known as Jonah Jones. In Dear Mona, Jones records in his own words not just the story of his early life as it happened, as he changed from gauche Len Jones to artist Jonah Jones, but also the story of the Home Front, of conscientious objection, of the European campaign following D Day and of the tensions in Palestine, which resonate still today. 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