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Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/328372 Title: Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe Author: Gordon Corera Narrator: William Hope Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs 19 mins Language: English Release date: 2018-02-22 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers UK Genres: Biography & Memoir, History & Culture Publisher's Summary: 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