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December 24, 2013

Christmas Eve Radio Reading: Frederick Forsyth's "The Shepherd"

 

Pour a Christmas pint, Athenaeum readers, & settle in for one of the great aviation tales. Written by Frederick Forsyth, published in 1975, this novella tells of a 1950s RAF pilot trying to fly home to England for the holidays in a deHavilland Vampire. But fate, always the hunter, intervenes...

 

Thanks to SST/TA commenter Charles I for gifting us all with this annual Christmas Eve CBC radio reading of "The Shepherd."

Happy Christmas To All.

-Maureen Lang

 

Posted at 03:50 AM in Books, Maureen Lang, Prose, The Military Art |

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