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

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;

Sheds new light on the hitherto neglected years of the Emergency (1955-58) demonstrating how it was British propaganda which decisively ended the shooting war in December 1958. The study argues for a concept of 'propaganda' that embraces not merely 'words' in the form of film, radio and leaflets but also 'deeds'.