Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance And The Struggle To Liberate Europe
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Gordon Corera uses declassified documents and extensive original
research to tell the story of MI14(d) and the Secret Pigeon Service
for the first time. `This is an amazing story' Simon Mayo, BBC
Radio 2 Between 1941 and 1944, sixteen thousand plucky homing
pigeons were dropped in an arc from Bordeaux to Copenhagen as part
of 'Columba' - a secret British operation to bring back
intelligence from those living under Nazi occupation. The messages
flooded back written on tiny pieces of rice paper tucked into
canisters and tied to the legs of the birds.Authentic voices from
rural France, the Netherlands and Belgium - they were sometimes
comic, often tragic and occasionally invaluable with details of
German troop movements and fortifications, new Nazi weapons, radar
system or the deployment of the feared V-1 and V-2 rockets that
terrorized London. Who were the people who provided this rich seam
of intelligence? Many were not trained agents nor, with a few
exceptions, people with any experience of spying. At the centre of
this book is the `Leopold Vindictive' network - a small group of
Belgian villagers prepared to take huge risks.They were led by an
extraordinary priest, Joseph Raskin - a man connected to royalty
and whose intelligence was so valuable it was shown to Churchill,
leading MI6 to parachute agents in to assist him. A powerful and
tragic tale of wartime espionage, the book brings together the
British and Belgian sides of the Leopold Vindictive's story and
reveals for the first time the wider history of a quirky,
quarrelsome band of spy masters and their special wartime
operations, as well as how bitter rivalries in London placed the
lives of secret agents at risk. It is a book not so much about
pigeons as the remarkable people living in occupied Europe who were
faced with the choice of how to respond to a call for help, and
took the decision to resist.
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William Collins ,
Gordon Corera
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William Collins,
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