viii, 334 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
Summary
The author of Intercept traces the lesser-known story of how British intelligence secretly used homing pigeons as part of a clandestine espionage operation in support of the Resistance in occupied Europe during World War II.