Operation Columba - The Secret Pigeon Service: The Untold Story Of World War Ii Resistance In EuropeĬorera, a Security Correspondent for BBC News, stumbled upon Operation Columba after covering a quirky news story about a dead pigeon’s leg with an indecipherable coded message attached to it that was found in a chimney outside London. “Corera is to be congratulated for bringing to light, with humor and verve, a virtually unknown chapter of the war” (Daily Telegraph, London). An “extraordinary, colorful and moving story… thrilling tale, ”says Sunday Times (London). In OPERATION COLUMBA: THE SECRET PIGEON SERVICE (William Morrow Octo$28.99), journalist Gordon Corera recounts the fascinating, forgotten story of a highly classified intelligence operation that used these avian messengers to gather information from the Resistance movement in Belgium and France and deliver it back to London. But the humble birds, renowned for their homing instincts, played a singular, if unsung role in Britain’s victorious fight against the Germans. Pigeons did not win World War II, people did.
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