Kumar Ramakrishna is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

'Kumar is able - in an outstandingly well-researched, well-argued and well-structured book - to offer a persuasive critique of the conventional perspective ... the book is required reading for historians of Malaya and for those whose task is to counter insurgents, guerillas and terrorists.' - The International History Review'This painstakingly researched study of propoganda in the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960) should be of interest to historians of insurgency in general as well as of propoganda. It is admirable not only for its range, and its richly textured use of sources, but also for its conceptualisation of propoganda.' - Southeast Asian Studies

• Chapter 1 Propaganda in the Malayan Emergency; Chapter 2 The Malayan Communist Part y and its Impact on Terrorist and Rural Chinese Confidence; Chapter 3 Propaganda in Disarray; Chapter 4 Propaganda on the Mend; Chapter 5 Propaganda Turning Point; Chapter 6 Propaganda Most Optimal;