History of Changi

Gateway to Britain's Far Eastern naval base, the site of Southeast Asia's largest prisoner-of-war camp, later on a major Royal Air Force base and today an international airport. Changi is all these and more. Tucked into Singapore's remote eastern corner, few could have predicted Changi's rise to fame.  Covering nearly eighty years of history, Air Commodore Probert draws on extensive first-hand information from veterans and scholars to chart Changi's dramatic transformation, coupled with dogged determination combined to overcome the challenges bequeathed by geography, economics and politics.  The History of Changi is more than a local story. It also closely mirrors Singapore's growth and its wider history, providing a record of major milestones in the country's steady progress to developed nation status.