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The Shepherd: Disney's ghostly new Christmas tale evokes the eerie qualities of Britain's abandoned second world war airfields

By Sam Edwards, Reader in Modern Political History, Loughborough University

From Charles Dickens to M.R. James, Christmas has a long association with ghost stories. In The Shepherd – part of Disney+’s festive fare for this year – we have an evocative addition to the genre.

Based on a short story by acclaimed thriller writer, Frederick Forsyth, and set in 1957, The Shepherd…

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