[PDF EBOOK EPUB] Operation Columba--The Secret Pigeon Service: The Untold Story of World War II Resistance in Europe
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Review �[An] amazing story of the secret pigeon service and how it helped to win the war.�Well-researched and well-told, as much about humans as pigeons, it is replete with eccentric Englishmen, ruthless Nazis, and brave resisters in occupied Europe who risk their lives for the Allied cause.� (Nicholas Reynolds, author of Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway�s Secret Adventures 1935-1961)�Witty and meticulously researched� Corera succeeds in bringing a virtually unknown chapter of the war to life and pays tribute to the ordinary people who risked their lives to resist the Nazis.� (Publishers Weekly)�The eccentric idea of enlisting pigeons as spies, combined with the bravery of those in occupied Europe who picked them up, vividly animates Corera�s excellent addition to the annals of WWII espionage.� (Booklist)�There�s undeniable drama in these pages, not just for the birds, the targets for German snipers� rifles and hungry hawks alike, but also for the groups of Resistance fighters who took part in Columba and, through the diligence of Belgian collaborators and Nazi officials� sometimes paid with their lives.� (Kirkus Reviews)�[An] extraordinary, colourful and moving story.� [A] thrilling tale.� (Sunday Times (London))�Once you�ve read this book you�ll never look at a pigeon disdainfully again � No Frederick Forsyth thriller could be as gripping as this real-life story� Corera�s gripping book is an intoxicating mixture of comedy and high seriousness.� (Daily Mail (UK))�Corera is to be congratulated for bringing to light, with humour and verve, a virtually unknown chapter of the war.� (Daily Telegraph (London)) Read more From the Back Cover THE FASCINATING, UNTOLD STORY OF INVENTIVE ESPIONAGE AND BRAVE RESILIENCE IN WORLD WAR II�REVEALING HOW ALLIED INTELLIGENCE SECRETLY USED HOMING PIGEONS TO COORDINATE WITH THE RESISTANCE TO DEFEAT THE NAZIS IN OCCUPIED EUROPEDuring the bloodiest years of World War II, British intelligence was determined to defeat the Axis powers by any means necessary. As part of a spy operation code-named Columba, the Allied forces amassed sixteen thousand highly trained homing pigeons and dropped them in an arc across Nazi-occupied Europe. Returning to the secret government branch in charge of the �Special Pigeon Service,� the birds carried messages written on tiny pieces of rice paper tucked into canisters and tied to the patient 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. Corera also reveals the part played by America�s specialist military pigeon units, such as their role in Operation Columba and their work in North Africa and Europe, including on D-Day.The people who sent these messages were not trained spies. They were ordinary men and women, fearful and half-starved, willing to risk their lives in the name of freedom. Some even formed amateur espionage organizations, including the Leopold Vindictive network�a small group of Belgian villagers led by an extraordinary priest named Joseph Raskin. Raskin became such a valuable asset that his intelligence eventually reached Churchill himself, and MI6 parachuted agents behind enemy lines to assist him.Gordon Corera uses declassified documents and extensive original research to tell the moving story of 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. Read more See all Editorial Reviews
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