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Author
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Publication Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
When several homing pigeons need a new home, a group of boys and girls adopt them and start the "Mighty Pigeon Club," only to find that they have taken on more than they bargained for.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Publication Date
c1954
Physical Desc
191 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of the training of a carrier pigeon and its service during the First World War, revealing the bird's courageous and spirited adventures over the housetops of an Indian village, in the Himalayan Mountains, and on the French battlefield.
4) Flight of the diamond smugglers: a tale of pigeons, obsession, and greed along coastal South Africa
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
208 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Blending elements of reportage, memoir, and incantation, Flight of the Diamond Smugglers is a stunning investigation into the role of carrier pigeons in South African diamond smuggling. Nearly every town along South Africa's infamous diamond coast has been deemed "overmined." Before the area fully becomes a series of abandoned outposts, journalist Matthew Gavin Frank drives from Oranjemund, Namibia to the De Beers mining towns of Alexander Bay, Porth...
Author
Publisher
Kensington
Publication Date
2023.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Weaving wartime intrigue, rural village life, and little-known historical facts about the role of carrier pigeons in WWII, Stephanie Graves continues the adventures of British pigeoneer Olive Bright, but as bitter cold weather forces her racing birds indoors in November 1941, Olive is assigned to a new role in the war effort - escorting none other than Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming on his visit to the Brickendonbury Manor spy training center......
6) Clever Ali
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Publication Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
When seven-year-old Ali's greedy pet steals cherries from the wicked Sultan for whom his father keeps carrier pigeons, Ali is given three days to find 600 new cherries or his father will be thrown into the deep, dark oubliette. Includes facts about carrier pigeons and the sultan on whom this story is based, as well as an excerpt from "In Praise of Books" by al-Jahiz.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Publication Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"In October 1918, during World War I, nearly seven hundred American soldiers were trapped behind enemy lines with no prospect of rescue. Allied troops did not have access to their location, and every attempt at communication provoked more casualties. Their only hope -- to dispatch a trained messenger pigeon to reach help miles away. This unforgettable story celebrates courage and determination in its most vulnerable form. Cher Ami's fearless flight...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tending her veterinarian father's Hertfordshire racing pigeons while waiting for her best friend to return from World War II, Olive is recruited into the Baker Street covert branch of British Intelligence before investigating the murder of a local busybody.
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Publication Date
2009
Physical Desc
85 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
While Rebecca Rubin helps her building's ailing superintendent take care of his homing pigeons, she puzzles over what to do with the Christmas centerpiece her teacher insisted she make but which has no place in her Jewish home.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone
Publication Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In October 1918, World War I had been raging in Europe for more than four years. When Major Charles Whittlesey led the U.S. 77th Division into France's Argonne Forest, his troops were soon surrounded and cut off from escape by German forces. Things became even more dangerous when the division came under friendly fire from U.S. forces. The troops' only hope was to send a carrier pigeon named Cher Ami with a desperate message to stop the attack. Read...
12) Operation Columba: the Secret Pigeon Service : the untold story of World War II resistance in Europe
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Publication Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
viii, 334 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The fascinating, untold story of how British intelligence secretly used homing pigeons as part of a clandestine espionage operation to gather information, communicate, and coordinate with members of the Resistance to defeat the Nazis in occupied Europe during World War II. Between 1941 and 1944, British intelligence dropped sixteen thousand homing pigeons in an arc across Nazi-occupied Europe, from Bordeaux, France to Copenhagen, Denmark, as part...
13) Dear Miss Kopp
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The indomitable Kopp sisters are tested at home and aboard in this warm and witty tale of wartime courage and camaraderie"-- Provided by publisher.
The U.S. has finally entered World War I. Constance Kopp is chasing down suspected German saboteurs and spies for the Bureau of Investigation while Fleurette is traveling across the country entertaining troops with song and dance. Meanwhile, at an undisclosed location in France, Norma is overseeing her...
Author
Publication Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It is September 1940-a year into the war-and as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion. Enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around the Epping Forest home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. After losing her parents to influenza as a child, Susan found comfort in raising homing pigeons with Bertie. All her birds are extraordinary to Susan-loyal, intelligent, beautiful-but none more so than Duchess. Hatched from...
15) A valiant deceit
Author
Publisher
Kensington
Publication Date
2022.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Young pigeoneer Olive Bright has been conscripted, with her racing birds, to aid the fight against the Nazis. It's not the daring role she'd envisioned for herself, but her quiet little English village is not nearly as sheltered as she imagined... Returning to Pipley following her FANY (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry) training, Olive is eager to step up her involvement in the war effort. Her pigeons are being conscripted to aid the Belgian resistance,...
16) Valiant
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Publication Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 76 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Valiant and his feathered friends take to the sky to prove as they work their way into the Royal Air Force during World War II. Together this rag-tag squadron of carrier pigeons engages in an aerial adventures at a spitfire pace. From the first bumbling day of basic training through the final feather-raising mission, the flock of friends swoop their way toward victory. How, against the odds and an evil German falcon, Valiant is called upon for a...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Publication Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 459 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dick Dastardly and his snickering canine co-pilot Muttley plot to "stop that pigeon" aboard their World War I flying machines. When muttering Muttley ("rassuh-frazza-pazza") decides he's finally had enough, he flies off into his own fantasy world where he gets to be the boss for a change!

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