Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. About the Author viii
3. Foreword ix
4. Contents xi
5. List of tables and charts xiii
6. Map of Malaya 1948 xv
7. Acknowledgments xvii
8. Prologue xix
9. Chapter one. The nature of the Malayan Emergency 1
10. Chapter two. The Malayan Security Service and the evolution of the Special Branch 25
11. Chapter three. The Special Branch takes over (1948–49) 59
12. Chapter four. The principles of intelligence collection 79
13. Chapter five. Agents of change (1949–52) 107
14. Chapter six. The rise of the Special Branch (1950–52): Sir William Jenkin 131
15. Chapter seven. The Special Branch and the Briggs Plan 147
16. Chapter eight. General Templer, Colonel Young and the Special Branch: the implementation of the Briggs Plan 173
17. Chapter nine. The Special Branch comes of age (1952–56) 197
18. Chapter ten. ‘The weather has been horrible’—the Special Branch and communist communications: a case study 219
19. Chapter eleven. The Special Branch on the Malayan–Thai frontier (1948–60): a case study 245
20. Chapter twelve. Conclusion: the end of the Emergency (1957–60) 269
21. Abbreviations, acronyms and glossary 295
22. Note on transliteration 298
23. Bibliography 299
24. Index 319