5/18/2023 0 Comments The Long Flight Home by Alan Hlad![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, the GCHQ has stated, “Although it is disappointing that we cannot yet read the message brought back by a brave carrier pigeon, it is a tribute to the skills of the wartime code-makers that, despite working under severe pressure, they devised a code that was undecipherable both then and now.” I find it intriguing that British codebreakers, during World War II, cracked the Nazi Enigma machine and turned the tide of the war. Attached to the pigeon’s leg was an encrypted message, one that has yet to be decrypted by code breakers around the world, including Britain’s Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ). While conducting research for this book, I became captivated by a 2012 British news report about the skeletal remains of a war pigeon that was found in a Surrey chimney, decades after the war. The Long Flight Home was inspired by Britain’s darkest days of World War II, and one remarkable discovery-made many years after the war-which remains a mystery. I’ve always been fascinated by true, yet little-know historical events. ![]()
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