![]() ![]() 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. 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 V-1 and V-2 rockets. ![]() The messages flooded back written on tiny pieces of rice paper tucked into canisters and tied to the legs of the birds. Between 19, sixteen thousand 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. A little wear to edges of dw/boards, bottoms of dw flap folds chipped a good copy. Hard cover dust wrapper, 334pp, b&w plates. ![]()
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