Nordic Book Club, April 2026

Join us in April as we read When the Yanks Came to Sweden by author and journalist Gary G. Yerkey. This book was selected as the 2025 Circle Book by the Swenson Center.

From the author:

Over a two-year period during World War II, more than 150 U.S. bomber aircraft — crippled by mechanical failure or enemy firepower over Nazi-occupied territory — made emergency landings in Sweden, and their crews (about 1,200) were interned in Sweden under the terms of international law. Hundreds of other Americans also found themselves in Sweden during the war, including scores of undercover agents who worked for the Office of Strategic Services (the immediate predecessor of the CIA), as well as dozens of foreign correspondents who covered developments in the region for U.S.-based news organizations. Henry Luce, then-publisher of TIME magazine, was once asked how his reporters were able to get news from inside Nazi Germany.…