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1) Pigeon hero!
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of a carrier pigeon named GI Joe, who braved enemy fire and other hazards to deliver a crucial message that prevented the bombing of an Italian town during World War II.
Author
Series
Clubhouse book volume 4
Publisher
Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
When some homing pigeons need a new home, a group of friends take them and start the "Mighty Pigeon Club," only to find that they have taken on more than they bargained for.
Author
Series
Adventures of Minnie and Max volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Assisted by her cat Max and her friend Cash, Minnie tries to find Mary Moon, a valuable racing pigeon that has disappeared just before a big race.
5) Flight of the diamond smugglers: a tale of pigeons, obsession, and greed along coastal South Africa
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2021.
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...
7) The aviators
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Based on a True story. In 1918 the quiet life on a farm is suddenly threatened by the arrival of the first World War. Aware of their responsibility to help against the enemy, a clumsy but bold group of Carrier Pigeons along with their sidekick engineer mouse become messengers to try and save the life of a battalion of American soldiers.
8) Rome Antics
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
A pigeon carrying an important message takes the reader through a tour of Rome.
Author
Series
Rosato and Associates novels volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Judy Carrier takes the case of her career to defend Anthony Lucia, fondly known as "Pigeon Tony," who freely admits to killing his lifelong enemy in order to settle a personal vendetta. Her client's guilt, however, is only the beginning of Judy's problems. The victim's family wants revenge and is determined to finish off Pigeon Tony and Judy before the case goes to trial. Then there's Pigeon Tony's hunky grandson, who makes Judy think about everything...
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Homing pigeon Homer and his parrot friend Lulu learn something is afoul when they witness four-legged criminals stealing valuables from both the animal and human communities. Using the sleuthing techniques he's gathered from his favorite mystery comics, Homer and Lulu track down the bandits, but need human help to stop them for good. Can they find a way to communicate with their human keepers and lead them to the culprits' hideout to stop the thieves?--...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
As London is strafed by German aircraft, the little village of Pipley in Hertfordshire bustles along much as it always has. Olive Bright fills her days by helping at her father's veterinary practice and tending to her racing pigeons, hoping that the National Pigeon Service will enlist Bright Lofts' expertise, and use their highly trained birds to deliver critical, coded messages for His Majesty's Forces. The strangers who arrive in Pipley are not...
13) Valiant
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
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... As the weather turns bitterly cold in the dark days of November 1941, fewer pigeons are being conscripted for missions into occupied Europe and Olive fears her covert program may be dropped altogether. In fact, the new CO of the Baker Street intelligence operation at Brickendonbury...
15) A valiant deceit
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Returning to Pipley following her FANY (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry) training, young pigeoneer Olive Bright is eager to step up her involvement in the war effort. Her pigeons are being conscripted to aid the Belgian resistance, and it's up to Olive to choose the best birds for the mission. To protect the secrecy of their work, she must also continue the ruse of being romantically involved with her superior, Captain Jameson Aldridge, a task made more...
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c1960
Language
Czech
Description
A white carrier pigeon loses its way when it tries to fly home to the Baltic coast, where a young girl anxiously awaits it. Lost, tired, and ill, the bird lands in Prague. It is rescued by an artist and then gradually brought back to health by a small, frail boy. People's lives are changed forever by their encounter with the bird.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Answering the call to serve in the war to end all wars, neither Cher Ami, a messenger bird, nor Charles Whittlesey, an Army officer, can anticipate how their lives will briefly intersect in a chaotic battle in the forests of France. Trapped behind enemy lines during the last offensive in the Argonne Forest, Major Charles Whittlesey and his Lost Battalion enemy lines suffered friendly fire. Their only source of communication with the rear lines: a...
Author
Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
September, 1940. German bombs fall on Britain, and enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around the Epping Forest, home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. The two raise homing pigeons, and Susan's favorite is Duchess. Hatched from an egg that Susan incubated in a bowl under her grandfather's desk lamp, Duchess shares a special bond with Susan. A Maine crop-duster pilot, Ollie Evans travels to Britain to join the Royal Air Force. In the...
19) Operation Columba: the Secret Pigeon Service : the untold story of World War II resistance in Europe
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2018
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
2009
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.
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