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100 1 Corera, Gordon,|eauthor.
245 10 Operation Columba--the secret pigeon service :|bthe untold
story of World War II resistance in Europe|h[Hoopla
electronic resource] /|cGordon Corera.
250 Unabridged.
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511 0 Read by Derek Perkins.
520 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 the Resistance to defeat
the Nazis in occupied Europe during World War II. Between
1941 and 1944, British intelligence dropped sixteen
thousand homing pigeons in an arc across Nazi-occupied
Europe, from Bordeaux, France to Copenhagen, Denmark, as
part of a spy operation code-named Columba. Returning to
MI14, the secret government branch in charge of the
"Special Pigeon Service," the birds carried messages that
offered a glimpse of life under the Germans in rural
France, Holland, and Belgium. Written on tiny pieces of
rice paper tucked into canisters and tied to the birds'
legs, these messages were sometimes comic, often tragic,
and occasionally invaluable-reporting details of German
troop movements and fortifications, new Nazi weapons,
radar systems, and even the deployment of the feared V-1
and V-2 rockets used to terrorize London. The people who
sent these messages were not trained spies. They were
ordinary men and women willing to risk their lives in the
name of freedom, including the "Leopold Vindictive"
network-a small group of Belgian villagers led by an
extraordinary priest named Joseph Raskin. The intelligence
Raskin sent back by pigeon proved so valuable that it
reached Churchill and MI6 parachuted agents behind enemy
lines to assist him. Gordon Corera uses declassified
documents and extensive original research to tell the
story of the Operation Columba and the Secret Pigeon
Service for the first time. A powerful tale of wartime
espionage, bitter rivalries, extraordinary courage,
astonishing betrayal, harrowing tragedy, and a quirky,
quarrelsome band of spy masters and their special mission,
Operation Columba opens a fascinating new chapter in the
annals of World War II. It is ultimately, the story of how,
in one of the darkest and most dangerous times in history,
under threat of death, people bravely chose to resist.
538 Mode of access: World Wide Web.
610 10 Great Britain.|bMI6|xHistory|y20th century.
650 0 Homing pigeons|xWar use|zGreat Britain.
650 0 World War, 1939-1945|xMilitary intelligence|zGreat
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650 0 World War, 1939-1945|xUnderground movements|zBelgium.
700 1 Perkins, Derek,|enarrator.
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