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Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe by Gordon Corera

Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe by Gordon Corera

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Pigeons were still in use during the Second World War to carry messages from planes and battlefields but Operation Columba set them to work in a more ambitious project gathering intelligence across Nazi-occupied Europe. BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera tells the recently declassified story of the thousands of birds released over Holland, Belgium and France and assesses the value of the information they brought home.

Author(s): Gordon Corera
Publisher: William Collins
Publication date: 2019-02-21
Pages: 336
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
ISBN: 9780008220341-LN
Dimensions: 197.0 x 128.0 x 21.0 mm
Weight: 0.259 kg View full details