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Author Corera, Gordon, author.

Title Operation Columba : the Secret Pigeon Service : the untold story of World War II resistance in Europe / Gordon Corera.

Publication Info. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  940.54 COR    DUE 05-08-24
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  940.548 COR    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Nonfiction  940.5486 COR    DUE 11-05-20 Billed
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  940.5486 CORERA    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  940.5486 COR    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  940.5486 CORERA    Check Shelf
Edition First U.S. edition.
Description viii, 334 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Note "Originally published as Secret Pigeon Service in Great Britain in 2018 by William Collins"--Title page verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prologue -- Introduction -- 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.
Subject Great Britain. MI6 -- History -- 20th century.
Great Britain. MI6. (OCoLC)fst00562858
World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
Homing pigeons -- War use -- Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence -- Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Communications.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Belgium.
Communications, Military. (OCoLC)fst00870348
Homing pigeons -- War use. (OCoLC)fst00959698
Military intelligence. (OCoLC)fst01021270
Underground movements, War. (OCoLC)fst01355184
Belgium. (OCoLC)fst01210278
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title Secret Pigeon Service
Other Form: Online version: Corera, Gordon, author. Operation Columba New York, NY : William Morrow, [2018] 9780062667090 (DLC) 2018039485
ISBN 9780062667076 (hardcover)
0062667076 (hardcover)
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