If you like listening to podcasts, I'd recommend the following episode on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TlXi3_Fyyg https://www.youtube.com/watc

If you like listening to podcasts, I'd recommend the following episode on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TlXi3_Fyyg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TlXi3_Fyyg ‘If it became necessary immediately to discard every line and method of communications used on the front, except one, and it were left to me to select that one method, I should unhesitatingly choose the pigeons’, wrote Major General Fowler, Chief of Signals and Communications of the British Army, after the First World War. On today's podcast Tom and Dominic are joined by Gordon Corera, the BBC's Security Correspondent and author of 'Operation Columba: The Secret Pigeon Service', to discuss the often under-appreciated role of pigeons throughout the course of history.