One of the pivotal figures in the modern history of Southeast Asia, Mr Lee Kuan Yew passed away on 23 March 2015. From Third World to First details the extraordinary efforts Singapore took for the island city-state in Southeast Asia to survive, with just a "razor's edge" to manoeuvre in, as Albert Winsemius, its economic advisor in the 1960s, put it. This is a special memorial edition of the second of his 2-volume memoir.