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![]() Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. ![]() ![]() Not my usual type of book, but from the moment I started reading it, I could not put it down. A brilliantly written story about the homing pigeons that were used during World War II to help the Allies. This story bring the human element to the mission with Susan, her grandfather and Ollie. This story had a lot of up and downs and had me in tears at the end. Many novels have been written about World War II heroes. In “The Long Flight Home” (2019), Alan Hlad's first novel, that hero is a pigeon. In the autumn of 1940, German planes bomb London and other British targets nightly, and a Nazi invasion is expected at any time. The British look for anything that might give them an advantage, and somebody thinks of homing pigeons. The National Pigeon Service quickly organizes and enlists pigeon owners throughout the nation. Among these are Bertie Shepherd and his granddaughter Susan, who own some of the best racing pigeons in England. Yet Bertie's age and infirmities make his participation difficult, so Susan takes over the operation. The plan calls for dropping pigeons into France in hopes that members of the French Resistance will find them and and use them to send messages about German activities back to England. (Instead, most of the pigeons are eaten by hungry Frenchmen.) Meanwhile an American pilot named Ollie Evans suddenly loses both his parents and their farm and decides to go to England to try to join the Royal Air Force. But after he assaults an RAF officer he sees offending Susan, he winds up helping her with the pigeon project as an alternative to prison. They quickly fall in love. The hero pigeon is Susan's pet, Duchess, not actually part of the pigeon drop. Yet through a comedy of errors both Duchess and Ollie, not to mention the RAF officer Ollie struck, find themselves on the same plane that's shot down over France. Homing pigeons normally fly in just one direction — toward home — yet Duchess has two homes — with Susan and with Ollie — and thus carries messages back and forth between the two lovers. Hlad keeps the tension high as Ollie and the British officer, both injured in the crash, elude Germans in their struggle to find a way back to England. The bittersweet ending may not be the one readers hope for, but it is one they will remember. Book Club En septiembre de 1940, mientras las bombas alemanas caen sobre Gran Bretaña, la joven Susan y su abuelo Bertie hallan consuelo criando y entrenando palomas mensajeras que el EjĂ©rcito usará para transmitir informaciĂłn sobre los movimientos de los nazis en la Francia ocupada. A miles de kilĂłmetros, en Estados Unidos, un joven piloto llamado Ollie decide unirse a la RAF, la Real Fuerza AĂ©rea británica, entrando asĂ en contacto con el Servicio Nacional de Palomas, donde conoce a Susan. Tras hacerse inseparables, ambos serán seleccionados para formar parte de una misiĂłn secreta que puede llevar al paĂs a la victoria. Sin embargo, cuando el aviĂłn de Ollie es derribado en lĂneas enemigas, Susan sabe que las posibilidades de reunirse de nuevo son remotas. Pero Duquesa, su querida y fiel paloma, demostrará a todo el mundo que nunca debemos perder la esperanza. Basada en la verdadera historia de la OperaciĂłn Columba, ideada por Winston Churchill y en la que se usaron miles de palomas durante la guerra, El largo camino a casa es una fascinante y Ă©pica novela que homenajea a los seres anĂłnimos que cambiaron el rumbo de la Historia. Not my kind of book, although it was a real-page turner for me once I got a third of the way in. I read this for my book club, otherwise I never would have picked it up, or would have abandoned it after a few chapters. Some creativity but a lot of clichĂ©s too, and I think aimed at a high school reading level audience. I thought about a parallel with some pop music, how it can be dumb but catchy. But the difference is that a song on the radio is over with in 3 minutes, I spent maybe 3 or 4 -hours- on this. No worse than watching tv I guess. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML:A USA Today Bestseller Inspired by fascinating, true, yet little-known events during World War II, The Long Flight Home is a testament to the power of courage in our darkest hours—a moving, masterfully written story of love and sacrifice. It is September 1940—a year into the war—and as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion. Enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around the Epping Forest home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. After losing her parents to influenza as a child, Susan found comfort in raising homing pigeons with Bertie. All her birds are extraordinary to Susan—loyal, intelligent, beautiful—but none more so than Duchess. Hatched from an egg that Susan incubated in a bowl under her grandfather's desk lamp, Duchess shares a special bond with Susan and an unusual curiosity about the human world. Thousands of miles away in Buxton, Maine, young crop-duster pilot Ollie Evans decides to join Britain's Royal Air Force. His quest brings him to Epping and the National Pigeon Service, where Susan is involved in a new, covert mission to air-drop hundreds of homing pigeons in German-occupied France. Many will not survive. Those that do will bring home crucial information. Soon a friendship between Ollie and Susan deepens, but when his plane is downed behind enemy lines, both know how remote the chances of reunion must be. Yet Duchess will become an unexpected lifeline, relaying messages between Susan and Ollie as war rages on—and proving, at last, that hope is never truly lost. "Hlad adeptly drives home the devastating civilian cost of the war." —Booklist. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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