Ebook: The Tiger and the Trojan Horse: Flashes of red in early Singapore

""Some mug had to do it, "" said Lee Kuan Yew, explaining what appeared to be an act of pure folly-the decision of a politically puny group of young nationalists to take on the powerful communist movement in a crucial struggle for the strategic gateway to the East-Singapore. In the first phrase, the antagonists became partners, for while the nationalist were obliged to ride the communist tiger to gain the support of the masses, the outlawed communists saw their group as the Trojan Horse, through which they could capture constitutional power in a key British colony. But the ultimate aim of the a.;Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Part One The Origin of the Species; 1. The Pig Trade and the Mafiarchy; 2. First steps in Sedition; 3. Prototype for a Wooden Horse; 4. 1948: Death in the Jungle; 5. The Anti-British League; 6. Harry Lee and Friends; 7. The Synthetic Englishmen; 8. The Alien Chinese; 9. 1954: Bloody 13 May; 10. The Hidden Hand of Comrade D; 11. PAP: The loveless marriage; Part Two: The Nature of the Beast; 12. The Triad of Triads; 13. The Dedicated and the Damned; 14. The Tradecraft of Terrorism; Part Three: Same Bed, Different Dreams.