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Operation Columba : the Secret Pigeon Service : the untold story of World War II resistance in Europe  Cover Image Book Book

Operation Columba : the Secret Pigeon Service : the untold story of World War II resistance in Europe / Gordon Corera.

Corera, Gordon, (author.). Corera, Gordon. Secret Pigeon Service. (Added Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780062667076 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 334 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First U.S. edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, [2018]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published as Secret Pigeon Service in Great Britain in 2018 by William Morrow.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Birth -- The Special Pigeon Service -- Leopold Vindictive -- Arrival -- Listening -- Battle of the skies -- Reaching out -- Resistance -- Secret agents -- Undercover -- Battle of the skies II -- Capture -- Interrogation and infiltration -- The Viscount -- Trials and tribulations -- Deception -- The Americans are coming -- Fates.
Subject: Great Britain. MI6 > History > 20th century.
Homing pigeons > War use > Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945 > Communications.
World War, 1939-1945 > Military intelligence > Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945 > Underground movements > Belgium.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Stroud Branch 940.548641 Cor 31681010122729 NONFIC Available -


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