02306cam a2200385 4500 679292050 TxAuBib 20230301120000.0 190610s2019||||||||||||d|||||||||||und|u 2019943058 9781643583136 1643583131 (OCoLC)1104065407 TxAuBib Hlad, Alan, author. The Long Flight Home [Large print] / Alan Hlad. Center Point Large Print ed. Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2019. 519 p ; 5.4 x 8.6 in. September 1940, as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion. Since losing her parents as a child, Susan Shepherd has raised homing pigeons with her grandfather, Bertie. All her birds are extraordinary to Susan, but none more so than Duchess, with whom she shares a special bond. When a young pilot named Ollie Evans travels to Britain to join the Royal Air Force, his quest brings him to the National Pigeon Service, where Susan is involved in a new, covert assignment. The mission aims to air-drop hundreds of homing pigeons in German-occupied France. Many will not survive. Those that do make the journey home can convey crucial information on German troop movements. The friendship between Ollie and Susan deepens as the mission date draws near. When Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines, both know how remote the chances of reunion must be. Yet Duchess's devotion and her singular sense of duty will become an unexpected lifeline. 20230301. World War (1939-1945) England Fiction. Homing pigeons War use Great Britain Fiction. Air pilots, Military United States Fiction. Human-animal relationships Fiction. Man-woman relationships fast Fiction. Nineteen forties Fiction. Romance fiction. fast England Social life and customs 20th century Fiction. Great Britain fast History George VI, 1936-1952 Fiction. Historical fiction. fast War fiction. lcgft Large print books. lcgft TXGID