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Radio 3,05 Dec 2012,15 mins

SeriesNapoleon and Me

Adam Nicolson

The Essay

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To mark the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, a series of essays about Napoleon Bonaparte. When the writer Adam Nicolson was a teenager he lived with his father who was writing about Napoleon and 1812. What was it like?

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