Malayan Emergency: Triumph of the Running Dogs, 1948-1960

The story of the Anti-British National Liberation War, the long-running Cold War conflict that pit Communist guerrillas against the British in Malaya.

In an era of mass-produced AK-47s and ICBMs, Malaya became a Cold War flashpoint . . .

By the time of the 1942 Japanese occupation of the Malay Peninsula and Singapore, the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) had already been fomenting merdeka—independence—from Britain. The Japanese conquerors, however, were also the loathsome enemies of the MCPs ide...