Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe
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Corera taps into recently declassified material to present what Simon Mayo describes as 'an amazing story.' Europeans living under German occupation provided messages about the experience on the other side by pigeon to British intelligence in an operation largely masterminded by extraordinary priest Joseph Raskin, amounting to a brave and eccentric story of World War Two uncovered in vivid detail here 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
