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.
Corera tells the story of the Operation Columba: bitter rivalries, extraordinary courage, astonishing betrayal, harrowing tragedy, and a quirky, quarrelsome band of spy masters and their special mission. These messages were sometimes comic, often tragic, and occasionally invaluable the senders were ordinary men and women willing to risk their lives in the name of freedom. 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. “Between 19, British intelligence dropped sixteen thousand homing pigeons in an arc across Nazi-occupied Europe as part of a spy operation code-named Columba.
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