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    Operation Columba--The Secret Pigeon Service
    Operation Columba--The Secret Pigeon Service
    Operation Columba--The Secret Pigeon Service
    Operation Columba--The Secret Pigeon Service
    Operation Columba--The Secret Pigeon Service
    Operation Columba--The Secret Pigeon Service
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    Operation Columba--The Secret Pigeon Service

    by: Gordon Corera

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    Operation Columba--The Secret Pigeon Service

    Operation Columba--The Secret Pigeon Service

    By: Gordon Corera

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    The fascinating, untold story of how British intelligence secretly used homing pigeons as part of a clandestine espionage operation to gather information, communicate, and coordinate with members of t...

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    Front top covet slightly bent Gordon Corera uses declassified documents and extensive original research to tell the story of MI14(d) and the Secret Pigeon Service for the first time. ‘This is an amazing story’ Simon Mayo, BBC Radio 2Between 1941 and 1944, sixteen thousand plucky homing pigeons were dropped in an arc from Bordeaux to Copenhagen as part of 'Columba' – a secret British operation to bring back intelligence from those living under Nazi occupation. The messages flooded back written on tiny pieces of rice paper tucked into canisters and tied to the legs of the birds. Authentic voices from rural France, the Netherlands and Belgium – they were sometimes comic, often tragic and occasionally invaluable with details of German troop movements and fortifications, new Nazi weapons, radar system or the deployment of the feared V-1 and V-2 rockets that terrorized London.

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    Category - Fiction / Historical Fiction

    Format - Paperback

    Condition - Good

    Listed - A year ago

    Views - 15

    Wishes - 1

    Ships From - Maryland

    Est. Publication Date - Oct 2019

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