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An Element of Luck

   

Michael A Crouch was a political officer who served throughout the then Aden Protectorates and in Aden itself from 1958 until the British withdrawal in 1967. Since then he has returned to Yemen frequently, visiting old friends and touring the country.

A second edition of his book, An Element of Luck, published by Rawlhouse Publishing, is available from amazon.co.uk

     

   

Three extracts can be read online here:

1. A day of reckoning

2. Full circle: "It should never have happened"

3. Returning "home"

   

Footnotes at the end of each chapter give further detail on the personalities and events of the time.

 

     

In the Yemen section

 
   

 

 

 
 
 
 


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Last revised on 06 August, 2015