![]() ![]() ![]() Her story intertwines with that of Ollie, a crop duster from Maine who joins the British Royal Air Force. Susan shares a special bond with Duchess, a pigeon she hatched from an egg. The pigeons were used to send encrypted messages-a service that was incredibly important to the information sharing of the Allies.Īlan Hlad's debut fiction novel follows Susan Shepherd, a woman who raises homing pigeons in Epping, Britain with her grandfather Bertie. ![]() From 1939-1945, the National Pigeon Service, which provided birds to the Royal Air Force and the Army and Intelligence Services, deployed 16,554 war pigeons throughout Europe. The Long Flight Home by Alan Hlad hones in on one of those efforts. During World War II, there were many efforts that flew under the radar. ![]()
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