Flying Back in TimeThe
Swedes in Yemen
Published
2025
Softcover,
222 pages, many photos,
including 16 pages of colour
images. Much updated version
of De tog flyget till
Medeltiden. Svenskarna i
Jemen (Swedish, 2008)
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Flying Back
in Time to Arabia Felix. The
Swedes in Yemen
FLYING BACK IN TIME TO ARABIA
FELIX is a book about a group
of Swedes who decided to live
and work in Yemen, which was
at that time one of the
world’s poorest and most
secluded countries. They
describe their experience as
being taken back to the Middle
Ages and in that environment,
they were to introduce one of
the most modern things that
existed in the 1950s –
aviation.
Among the Swedes in Yemen were
a number of colourful
characters. One example is
Thorsten Akrell, who became
famous when he ‘abducted’
another man’s wife from
Beckomberga mental hospital by
plane and as a secret agent,
he was involved in an
operation to kidnap Göring.
After the Second World War, he
ended up as a pilot flying for
the Imam in Yemen. ‘Gus’
Gustafsson stayed the longest
period of them all. He
experienced several
insurgencies, was captured by
rebels and finally drowned
when trying to cross a flooded
watercourse. The book is a
piece of hitherto unknown
contemporary history and it is
illustrated with a large
number of photos in black and
white and colour, most of them
unique.
LENNART ANDERSSON has
previously written a number of
historical books, often
related to the world of
aviation.
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