Cher Ami: The Story of a Carrier Pigeon 1942 Marion B. Cothren ~True Story ~ World War I ~ Pigeon Service

Title: Cher Ami: The Story of a Carrier Pigeon

Author: Marion B. Cothren
Illustrator: Richard F. Bartlett

Description: Fourth printing, June 1942. Boards in gray cloth with blue-stamped pictorial on front cover. Top of spine lightly toned. Three pages have a bit of soiling in their margins, else interior is clean and unmarked. 16 black-and-white illustrations. Dust jacket a bit worn at spine ends; some chipping to corners of front panel; not price clipped ($1.25); in an archival mylar sleeve. 83, [1] pages.

The true story of Cher Ami, a homing pigeon who had been donated by the pigeon fanciers of Britain for use by the U.S. Army Signal Corps in France during World War I and had been trained by American pigeoners. He is famous for delivering a message from an encircled battalion despite serious injuries during the Meuse-Argonne offensive in October 1918.

The author, Marion Cothren (1880-1949), was an American suffrage and peace activist (inspired by what she saw when working with the International Red Cross in France during the First World War), lawyer, and children's author. In 1944, she published Pigeon Heroes: Birds of War and Messengers of Peace.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good+
Jacket Condition: Very Good–

Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company
Place: Boston
Year: 1942

Keywords: Pigeon Service, American Expeditionary Force, WWI, World War I,