The Singapore story : memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew (Student Edition)

The Singapore Story (Student Edition) is primarily for the student as part of National Education. It is also for the general reader who wants a shorter, more digestible version of the original unabridged first volume The Singapore Story.


The essentials of the original volume are retained with special regard to the material pertaining to the Singapore (and Malaysia) context. The book:

- traces Lee Kuan Yew’s boyhood, his Japanese Occupation experience, his courtship of his wife-to-be, his student days at Cambridge University, his return to Singapore and the formation of the People’ Action Party.

- describes the PAP’s struggle with the communists within its ranks and the subsequent party purge of subversive elements.

- details the early moves to merger with the Malayan Federation to form Malaysia, about the merger itself and the race clashes.

- includes the emotive description of the momentous breakup of Malaysia that forced Singapore on its independent journey to nationhood.

- features over forty photographs and an index.

- introduces two useful appendices — Key Personalities and a Chronology of Events.